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Health-EU e-newsletter Number 84.
EU Health Prize for Journalists

The e-newsletter provides you twice a month with a selection of the latest news and activities in the field of public health at both European and international level.

10 February 2012

 

Commissioner Dalli visits the Zentrum für Europäischen Verbraucherschutz

09 February 2012

On 13 February Commissioner Dalli will visit the European Consumer Centres of France and Germany. Both belong to the European Consumer Centres Network (ECC-Net) and are hosted in Kehl (Germany) by the Zentrum für Europäischen Verbraucherschutz (EVZ).

The Commissioner will also meet with the Online-Schlichter, the on-line dispute resolution body. The purpose of the visit is to understand how the centres and the on-line dispute resolution work in practice, and what kind of issues they have to deal with.

The visit will be honoured by MEP Lamassoure and MEP Schwab, both involved in consumer policy and the minister for consumer protection of Baden-Württemberg, Alexander Bonde, will be present as well.

The ECC-Net is a network that comprises 29 European Consumer Centres: covering all the Member States of the European Union, Iceland and Norway. The ECC-net offers help to consumers in finding solutions to cross-border shopping problems. They provide consumers with information, advice and support on their rights when buying goods or services in another EU country, Iceland or Norway. The services provided by the European Consumer Centres are free of charge.

For more information, see: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/ecc/index_en.htm

ECC-Net is co-financed by grants - by the EU and the participating countries. ECCs are hosted by public bodies or non-profit-making organisations which have been designated by the Member State or the competent national authority. The EAHC is organising the call for proposals, conducting the evaluations, signing and managing the ECC-net grants on annual basis.

 

Conference on combating food-related crime - 27-28 February 2012 - Brussels

31 January 2012

This conference is organised by the Executive Agency for Health an Consumers (EAHC) within the framework of the Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF) programme of Directorate General Health and Consumers.
The conference will bring together policy and decision makers in the food safety, law enforcement and judicial fields at EU and Member States' level. The aim is to create the opportunity to exchange views on the legal and judicial instruments already available and their possible improvements, as well as on the existing information network, control procedures and their possible reinforcement. It will also provide the chance to reflect on ways for closer and strengthened coordination of all involved actors in this new type of organised criminal activity.

Commissioner Šemeta, responsible for Taxation, Customs, Anti-fraud and Audit, and Commissioner Dalli, responsible for Health and Consumer Policy, will respectively open and close the conference.

For further information please visit webpage here below.

Conference on combating food-related crime

 

Allergies in Europe, 21 March 2012, Brussels

19 January 2012

The workshop organised by project HIALINE.

Allergies are the most prevalent chronic disease in Europe, and the frequency is still rising. The reasons are still unclear.

The workshop will bring to Brussels researchers and opinion makers involved in allergy, to inform stakeholders about the ongoing epidemic of allergic diseases.

For further information click here.

You are cordially invited to visit the workshop and feel free to forward the flyer to anyone you think might be interested. Participation is free of charge.

 

Health economic assessment tools (HEAT) for walking and for cycling: Methodology and user guide has been published

18 January 2012

The promotion of cycling and walking as everyday physical activities not only promotes health but can also have positive effects on the environment.

This booklet summarises the tools and guidance developed to facilitate this shift: the methodology for the economic assessment of the transport infrastructure and policies in relation to the health effects of walking and cycling; systematic reviews of economic and health literature; and guidance on applying health economic assessment tools and the principles underlying it. This methodology and user guide will be of key interest to professionals at both national and local levels: transport planners, traffic engineers, and special interest groups working on transport, walking, cycling or the environment, as well as health economists, physical activity experts and health promotion experts.

The publication received co-funding from the European Union in the frame of the EU Health Programme.

You can see the publication here

 

Review of practices on New born Screening across the EU: final report

18 January 2012

Newborn screening (NBS) is the process of testing newborn babies to detect a pre disease abnormality or early disease where early intervention is able to improve health outcomes.

As the availability of new technologies makes it easier for more and more diseases to be screened at birth this has resulted in an important heterogeneity in Europe in this area. There is therefore a need for identifying what are the current practices in the Member States; for what reasons the diseases to be screened are selected; how the decisions to expand the list of diseases are taken; what are the technologies used; and what organisation is in place to ensure comprehensive screening of all newborns and to evaluate the performance of the programmes.

This information is now available, through the main deliverables of a tender launched by the EAHC in 2009.

Please find here the four files about these tenders:

For more information please click here.

 

Health Programme: National Information Day in Stockholm (Sweden) on 11/01/2012

05 January 2012

The Swedish National Information Day on the Calls for proposals 2012 will be held on 11/01/2012 in Nordic Sea Hotel, Stockholm (Sweden). The National Information Day is organized by the National Focal Point for Sweden: Statens Folkhälsoinstitut Oestersund. Participation is free of charge, but a registration is expected due to limited number of seats (please see the agenda for contact details).

For more information:

 

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Upcoming other events organised or attended by EAHC's beneficiaries

  • 19 September 2011 - 26 February 2012, Annecy, France
    3rd IHR implementation course, developed in collaboration with the University of Pretoria, South Africa, Georgetown University Law Center, USA, and the University of Geneva, Switzerland is now accepting applications. For more information and to apply for the 3rd IHR i-course consult the website or contact Mrs Virginie Ducroux.
  • 11 - 13 May 2012, Island Pag, Croatia
    3rd EURIPA Rural Health Invitational Forum.
  • 02 - 13 July 2012, Lisbon, Portugal
    2012 European Summer School on ‘Drugs in Europe: Supply, Demand and Public Policies’. This two week summer school will allow to better disseminate at European level information on the drugs situation to university students and the wider scientific community. Lectures will be delivered by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) scientific staff and Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE) professors. The programme can be found by clicking here. More information is available on the website.

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