European Public Health

11/10/2016

Yesterday was October 10th, a day which was dubbed World Mental Health Day. As a mental healthcare professional I embrace this initiative – a special day to emphasize the importance of mental health and wellbeing -, particularly due to the fact it signifies the launch of various initiatives to promo...

02/08/2016

Fear for the Zika virus has moved the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a negative travel advice for certain areas of Miami, Florida; pregnant women are advised to avoid parts of the city, while women who recently visited these areas of Miami are advised to not become pregnan...

14/07/2016

Reorganising the long-term care provision for older people is a pressing topic in Europe; populations are ageing, and with it long-term care demands are increasing. A new study has been published on the quality of long-term care in Belgium and the Netherlands, two countries that recently implemented...

14/07/2016

Mbomo is a district in the Cuvette-Ouest Region in the western part of the Republic of the Congo. Judging from statistics from the Unicef vaccination programme and local demographic researchers, the Mbomo district had a population of approximately 9,347 inhabitants at the start of 2016. As Mbomo cov...

15/05/2016

A week marked by Europe Day and the European Commission´s publication of the 2nd EU Health Programme´s evaluation report – Large scope, small focus, thin results? Time for some critical discussion. The 9th of May annually marks Europe Day; a day that celebrates peace and unity in the European Union....

16/04/2016

Our own Lisa Ploeg attended a seminar in Salzburg on migrant and minority health, where she also presented her excellent Master thesis in front of an international audience. Read her report on the seminar here!

From April 3rd to 9th, a seminar on migrant and minority health, organized by the Open Medical Institute from the American-Austrian Foundation and Open Society Foundations, Public Health Reviews and ASPHER, took place  in Salzburg, Austria. A member of europeanpublichealth.com joined this event, pre…

18/03/2016

Part of our editorial board will depart to Congo Brazzaville tomorrow for a medical project in the remote area near Odzala-Kokoua National Park. The project is an initiative of African Parks, a non-profit organisation concerned with nature and wildlife preservation in several nature reserves through…

12/03/2016

The European Commission has published a report summarising the European Union’s activities and achievements in 2015. President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker reflects on 2015 as being a year where the world closely watched the EU and how it dealt with a series of unprecedented crises…

08/03/2016

We have published a new discussion paper debating the European Union’s responsibilities, capacities and willingness in the field of global health. Healthcare governance already is a vastly complex policy domain within the borders of the European Union, partly due to conflicting political agendas and…

01/03/2016

This week the European Commission has adopted an annual work plan for 2016 within the context of the EU Health Programme 2014-2020. The available budget for grants and tenders in 2016 will be nearly 58 million euro. This money will be allocated to various health-related projects across the EU. Poten…

01/03/2016

A new study that was published in the renowned journal Science this week set out to investigate how qualitative and safe the tap water is in the United States, Great Britain and the Netherlands. In both Great Britain and the United States, the use of disinfectant residual is required in drinking wat…

01/03/2016

The EU member states are collectively trying to address the rising antimicrobial resistance rates. When bacteria are able to endure and survive a treatment with antimicrobial drugs, in this case certain antibiotics, then standard treatments gradually become ineffective and infections will persist, f…