The WAAAR focuses on lobbying and provoking awareness among all stakeholders and pressures authorities to take action to limit the surge and spread of multi-drug resistant pathogens.
SCHEER - Request for a scientific opinion on Guidance Document n°27: Technical Guidance for Deriving Environmental Quality Standards
Learn more about the EU-funded SUNFRAIL Tool for early identification of frailty and multimorbidity, designed by a multidisciplinary team of experts, and hear about good practices collected by project partners.
Men close the life expectancy gap on women by ditching drink and cigarettes and embracing a healthier lifestyle.
At EU-level, 'health' expenditure remained the second largest item of general government expenditure after expenditure on 'social protection' in 2015. In the EU-28, total expenditure of general governments on 'health' amounted to 7.2 % of GDP.
On 27 February 2017, the Commission, in cooperation with the European Investment Bank (EIB), held a seminar to discuss new forms of investment for innovative forms of healthcare. The event promoted the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), under the Investment Plan for Europe, as an effective financial instrument to support reforms in European health systems. Over 100 delegates participated in the event, from the public and private sectors: Member States authorities, healthcare managers and service providers, as well as investors active or interested in the health sector.
Who looks after the safety of your personal care products? Read the new factsheet by the Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety on the safety of personal care products, available in English, French, German and Spanish.
While almost half (49.8%) of the population aged 18 or over in the European Union (EU) did not do any sport, almost a third (29.9%) spent at least two and a half hours per week of leisure time doing physical activities in 2014, according to this latest Eurostat report.
The Commission has adopted a report on the mandatory labelling of the list of ingredients and the nutrition declaration for alcoholic beverages, which Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said, "supports the right of people in the EU to be fully informed about what they drink."
World Health Day, celebrated every 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO, focuses on a different health topic each year. The theme of the 2017 campaign is depression. See videos and more on the WHO web page.
Food business operators, health NGOs and consumer organisations, represented in the EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health, met on 9 March to discuss how to further reduce the marketing of foods high in fat, salt and sugar to children.
On 8 March in Brussels, the members of the High level Group on Nutrition and Physical Activity discussed the next steps to reduce the expose of children to marketing and advertising of unhealthy foods.
EURIPID is a collaboration between 27 European countries for authorities to exchange information on national prices of medicines. The EU-supported EURIPID project 2015-2018 will provide a user friendly tool with new features for interaction and clarity on the methodological and technical aspects.
The Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) call is open until 30 March. The contract is for training health professionals, social workers, law enforcement officers or professionals with equivalent functions in refugee and migrant centres.
On 13 March 2017, the Commission adopted a report to the European Parliament and the Council regarding the mandatory labelling of the list of ingredients and the nutrition declaration of alcoholic beverages.
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Board of Member States on ERNs - 8th meeting (15 December 2016)
SCCS - Opinion open for comment on Dimethylpiperazinium Aminopyrazolopyridine HCl (A164) - deadline for comments: 14 May 2017
SCCS - Opinion open for comment on Water-soluble zinc salts used in oral hygiene products - deadline for comments: 14 May 2017
