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#PublicHealth
📣Join us for a hybrid event on
#MobilityPlanning
& Health Prioritisation. Explore strategies for
#sustainable
, safe & inclusive
#transportation
solutions post-2024 and engage with experts.
🔗 Register here:
🔗 Read more:
🆕
@WHO
@STOPobesityEU
policy brief👇
'Children’s food choices can be influenced through nudges; that is, small, subtle changes to the physical & social environment that alter the prevailing choice architecture & the context in which decisions are made.' 🔗
Today
@WHO
published a critical factsheet: "Alcohol and Cancer in the European Union: A Call to Action"
Critically, the
@EU_ENV
Committee will vote tomorrow on the NCDs report from the SANT Subcommittee on Health!
Coronavirus threat greater for polluted cities, experts say.
Conditions caused by dirty air likely to cut
#COVID19
survival chances.
New maps show clean air returning to cities in lockdown.
🔎
#coronavirus
#cleanair4health
#airpollution
European health students are joining forces and raising awareness on
#antibiotic
use.
Better prescribing, responsible use, safe disposal and innovation are key factors to prevent an estimated 10 million deaths each year from
#AMR
, from 2050
Join them to
#KeepAntibioticsWorking
How much is
#airpollution
costing our health?
Our new study comparing the health-related costs of
#transport
and
#AirPollution
in 432 European cities reveals the high cost we all bear
Read the report here:
📢Health must be a political priority for
#EU2024
!📢
EPHA has endorsed the
#EU4HealthCivilSocietyAlliance
manifesto ahead of the
#EUElections
🇪🇺
These 10 priorities are essential for all parties, for a true European Health Union 🧵(1/4)
🔗
We have reached the end of the
#EmpowerHeath
Conference!
Many thanks to our online and in-person attendees for joining us, and huge thanks to our moderators, panellists, and our tech support team who made it all happen.
From the whole EPHA team, stay
#EPHAbulous
!
Europe must throw its regulatory weight behind an ambitious reform of the food system!
🆕EPHA paper discusses how the
#EUFarm2Fork
strategy can be a game-changer for people's health & put us on track to a sustainable future.
Read more 👉
#OneHealth
Obesity is not a matter of personal choice or willpower; it is a chronic disease driven by a range of factors, including experience of poverty and food pricing
#ChangingPerspectives
Read EPHA’s position on
#WorldObesityDay
➡️
📢 JOINT STATEMENT supporting
@WHO_Europe
Regional Committee in calling for an immediate cessation of military aggression and for a transition to peaceful negotiations, allowing for the necessary health and social support to every person in need.
➡️
🧵🔍joint statement on the 🇪🇺 framework for action on
#alcohol
, that will be discussed during
#RC72TLV
@WHO_Europe
(today)👇
▫️There is no safe level of alcohol consumption for
#NCDs
▫️warning alcohol labelling is needed
▫️
#HealthInequalities
in households with alcohol problems
🇪🇺 is the heaviest alcohol-consuming region in the 🌍, & the burden of alcohol-related harm is enormous.
We fully support the aspirations in the
#OsloDeclaration
to reduce
#alcoholharm
in an evidence-based manner via high-impact alcohol policy solutions.
We all know we're bombarded by food advertising & marketing all the time, as well as having tempting displays of treats & indulgences in all the stores we visit.
Yet we think we still make our own choices.
Our new report shows this isn't always the case.
#PutChangeOnTheMenu
📢
#EU4HealthCSA
calls for sustainable funding mechanisms and clearer action from the EU to help
#CivilSociety
to access funding!
Read the joint statement, signed by 30+ organisations👉
On
#WorldHealthDay
, we say a big THANK YOU to nurses and all health & care professionals!
We will work to ensure that today's gratitude is not forgotten as we rebuild our
#health
security and resilience in a post
#COVID19
world.
🔎
#ThanksHealthHeroes
The
#EUCancerPlan
needs a thorough
#prevention
pillar to tackle risk factors common to
#cancer
and other
#NCDs
, and support the creation of health-enabling living environments, say over 30 health organisations.
On to our second session of the day where we bring together voices from the
@WHO
, Commission, civil society and lived experience, for a multilevel discussion on involvement in policy making – moderated by
@MarinettiC
, EPHA Treasurer.
#EPHA30
#EmpowerHealth
#NothingWithoutUs
"Increasing gap between EU rhetoric and action on protecting health and regulating the food single market."
@AmandineGarde
passionately calls out EC failings and broken promises.
"We call on
@vonderleyen
to include a senior level health commissioner in her team, with a strong mandate, and to ensure that one of the Vice-Presidents of the Commission has overall responsibility for mainstreaming health across the whole Commission."
#EU4health
#vonderLeyen
Recipes for a Healthier Europe by the new Commission President-elect?
Ursula
#vonderLeyen
’s medical background has a huge potential, European patient, academic and public health NGOs say:
Joint letter ⤵
We call on the
@Europarl_EN
to stop classifying wood as a renewable energy source in
#REDIII
& to end subsidies for it as an energy source.
Health-related social costs caused by pollution from wood-based home appliances 👇
👉
Our "One Health in Action" session on
#AMR
at
@GasteinForum
is happening now!
We are discussing how the interdependent relationship between the health of animals, humans, and the environment requires a
#OneHealth
approach for collaborative action across all sectors.
#EHFG2023
The new 🇪🇺
#pharma
legislation is an opportunity to ensure better treatments, affordability, and availability of medicines across Europe
#A2Medicines
In a letter to the
@EU_Commission
, 20 CSOs call for urgent solutions with no further delays💊
🔗
💡
#OperatingGrants
are crucial for health NGOs and civil society organisations to play their essential part in the
#EUpolicymaking
processes.
🔍 the
#EU4Health
CSA joint statement calling for the continuation of Operating Grants 👉
It's tomorrow! MEPs are rising to fight
#AMR
.
From 4pm at
#MEPvsAMR
:
⏩
@EU_Health
insights with
@SKyriakidesEU
⏩discover the Interest Group work programme
⏩get the patient perspective from Silviu Ciocanelli, Colectiv fire survivor and AMR advocate.
This week, the EU4Health Civil Society Alliance held a panel event, hosted by MEP
@istvan_ujhelyi
We discussed:
🔹The need for better funding support for CSOs
🔹The organisation of operating grants from different funding programmes
Read our summary:
Join us for 'Health, Human Rights, Politics, and Populism', our 3rd Session of
#EmpowerHealth
, where will explore the link between the rise of populism and the erosion of health rights.
⌚ 12 Sept, 11:30-12:15
📍 Online Stream
Register:
#EPHA30
Session 4 is beginning!
Monika Kosinska — Global Head of Economic and Commercial Determinants for
@WHO
& previous EPHA Secretary General, sets the stage for Session 4: Determinants of Health: Are we Determined Enough?
#EPHA30
#EmpowerHealth
Following the almost complete absence of health from the State of the EU speech today from
@vonderleyen
we want to highlight the ten steps needed for health, taking on board both lessons from COVID19 pandemic and from what the Public Health community think is necessary.
#SOTEU23
#COVID19
highlights the need for strong, continued
#EU
cooperation on
#publichealth
now and long-term.
Support our members on the frontline and follow advice from
@WHO
@ECDC_EU
and national public health authorities
Read EPHA's statement here:
EPHA Director Gnrl
@milkasklvc
addressed
#EHFG2021
today emphasising that EU citizens are being devalued & deprived from influence. Examples of such:
❌no structural funding foreseen for NGOs in the
#EU4Health
Programme &
❌no civil society &
@Europarl_EN
at the
#HERA
table
Launching into the first
#EmpowerHealth
session 'On the Shoulders of Giants’, Tamsin Rose, previous EPHA Secretary General and moderator sets the stage, inviting us to reflect on the past 30 years, what were the public health gains, where have we failed to achieve change
#EPHA30
The time to act against
#airpollution
is NOW. Campaigner
@rosamund_ElsFdn
carries on her daughter Ella's legacy in Brussels on 25 April at the launch of an initiative to defend EU clean air policies and save lives.
#cleanair4health
REGISTER NOW
Today, 20 European organisations launch a Call to
#stopmarketingtokids
.
The EU can, and should, regulate to minimise the exposure of children to the marketing of nutritionally poor food - both on television and online.
Read more here:
'A hugely important milestone has been reached in Ireland, as the 1st country to introduce mandatory warnings on alcohol products'
@milkasklvc
A great achievement of our member
@AlcoholIreland
& their determined work against a powerful lobby!
🔗
#EWAC2023
Overweight &
#obesity
have reached epidemic levels in 🇪🇺.A discussion was held in the
@europarl
gathering MEPs & other public interest stakeholders to reflect on the next steps for EU action to protect children from
harmful food marketing. Event report 👇
The annual meeting of the Interest group on Antimicrobial resistance in the European Parliament is introduced by
@h_madda
.
#Amrita
Good attendance considering today's committee meetings including some significant & related votes.
Alcohol consumption is a major preventable risk factor for
#cancer
. Stronger EU commitment is necessary to implement policies that effectively tackle the sources & social determinants of cancer.
🔍 more 👉
#NCDWeek
🎉
#ACTonNCDs
A roadmap to combat Anti-Microbial Resistance has been adopted by the
@WHO_Europe
Regional Committee in Astana
#RC73Astana
.
We've welcomed this plan.
All stakeholders will now need to focus on implementing the Roadmap and working together to combat
#AMR
Presenting the new
@EPHA_EU
Board. Congratulations to our new Board members joining Freek Spinnewijn and Ber Oomen: Dr Jaume Costa, Vlad Mixich, Ann Isabelle Von Lingen; and Alice Chapman-Hatchett and Vanessa Moore who were re-elected at the 2019 EPHA Annual General Assembly
🧵
#AntimicrobialResistance
is a major health concern, requiring a
#OneHealth
approach,considering humans, animals, & the environment.The
#AMRStakeholderNetwork
Good Practices Report highlights initiatives that are engaging with this approach to prevent AMR:
We proudly participated at
#NASHsummit23
at the
@EUparliament
! Our Policy Manager Alessandro Gallina discussed the impact of prevention programmes on EU Public Health.
It's time to prioritise NCD prevention policies and foster a healthier future together! 💪
On behalf of the vulnerable & underserved, on behalf of those most affected by the ongoing
#PublicHealth
&
#HumanitarianCrises
in
#Ukraine
, we call on the international community, the EU, & member states to protect the health of all people affected!
🔍👉
In recent months, the
@europarl
has twice called on the
@EU_Commission
to introduce comprehensive legislation to protect children from the marketing of processed foods high in fats, sugar, & salt.
⌛️ to
#ActForChildHoodObesity
!
Join the discussion👉
🔎our guest article about the importance of dietary choices & their effects on human
#health
,
#nutrition
, & the link between the exploitation of our natural systems,
#ClimateChange
, & human health as well as food & agriculture contributions to 🌍health 👉
The
#EmpowerHealth
conference is about to begin!
There’s still time to register for our livestream – or get ready to follow our live-tweeting of the entire event!
#EPHA30
Today, unhealthy diets are a leading cause of death
& disability and currently cause 8 million premature deaths globally every year.
🆕
@WHO
@STOPobesityEU
Policy Brief is available ➡️
It's European Antibiotic Awareness Day! Find out more about EPHA's advocacy to
#keepantibioticsworking
⏩OUR WORK
⏩ NATIONAL ACTION PLANS
⏩ AMR STAKEHOLDER NETWORK
#AMR
#EAAD
Today the 73rd Regional Committee meeting of
@WHO_Europe
discusses a RoadMap for action against antimicrobial resistance.
#RC73Astana
.
In support, our Director General
@milkasklvc
will present a statement of 34 networks, alliances & bodies of the AMR Stakeholder Network
#AMR
.
EPHA calls on
#mayors
to tackle growing levels of
#airpollution
by further restricting traffic in congested urban centres.
Read more about the most effective measures to decrease air pollution levels in the new
@CEDelft
report for
#CleanAirHealthyCities
Thank you
@SKyriakidesEU
for hearing EU
#health
NGOs' concerns on the removal of
#EU4Health
operating grants today. We welcome continued dialogue on this funding issue to ensure we can play our full role in improving Europeans' health after
#COVID19
🧵Across the 🇪🇺, unhealthy diets and habits are leading to rising:
🩺obesity
🫀 non-communicable diseases
☠️premature death
We call on
@EU_Commission
to include the FSFS in the EC work programme for 2023👇
🔗
We need a
#SustainableFoodSystemsLawNOW
1 week until publication of the
#EUFarm2Fork
strategy!
If well-designed, this is a real opportunity to start an inclusive transformation of our
#foodsystem
, which was not
#sustainable
before COVID-19, and remains long-term unsustainable today.
📢Together with 13 organisations, we urge MEPs to support the
@EP_BeatCancer
BECA report with no further amendments on
#alcohol
(Para 15, 16, & 44).
Prevention is the key in the fight against
#cancer
,
#NCDs
.
Read the co-signed letter 👉
#CancerPlan
We now open session 6: Future Vision, where we will hear from the audience, answering their questions and comments.
First we hear a video message from
@SKyriakidesEU
, — European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety
@EU_Health
#EPHA30
#EmpowerHealth
Global estimates indicate that over 80% of young
people in school are not meeting the global recommendations of 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per day. ⛹️♀️🥅
Read 🆕
@WHO
@STOPobesityEU
policy brief 👇
#childhoodobesity
📢 Today 160 CSOs are writing to
@vonderleyen
with one urgent demand: publish an ambitious Sustainable
#FoodSystems
Law, to:
Address harms by the food industry
Ensure corporate responsibility
Establish enforcement mechanisms
Read our open letter:
#SOTEU
🧵As the
@STOPobesityEU
project draws to an end, & ahead of the Final Conference in Rome🇮🇹 , we asked Project Leaders to summarise their 3⃣ key implications for policy design to address
#childhoodobesity
.
👀this space, all the videos will be available this week!
@WorldObesity
Session 3 begins, moderated by
@BatoolWahdani
— Board Member of the International Youth Health Organisation (YHO), who opens the important discussion on politics and health, and how populist rhetoric impedes our freedom to enjoy rights to health
#EPHA30
#EmpowerHealth