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POLICY PAPER: Empowering Citizens – The Key to a Successful Digital Health Transformation

The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the untapped potential for the deployment of digital health tools in Europe. Digital tools can empower citizens to manage their own health, allow healthcare workers to treat patients remotely, enable beneficial research efforts, and equip authorities to accurately track public health through data. Our Digital Working Group, focused […]

Consultation: EU Zero Pollution Action Plan

All Policies for Healthy Europe submitted its feedback to the European Commission consultation on the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan on October 27, 2020, as part of coalition’s policy work done by the Environment Working Group. Read our response to the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan consultation.

POLICY PAPER: Zero-Pollution Ambition Prioritising citizens’ health & well-being

The Environment Working Group is proud to present its 2020 Policy Paper, focusing on how the Commission’s Zero-Pollution Ambition can protect citizens’ health & well-being. The Environment Working Group is chaired by Tsvetelina Filipova, Lead on Governance and SDGs, Senior Policy Analyst at the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP). To ensure the health & […]

Sara Cerdas MEP, Shadow Rapporteur for EU4Health on Health and Well-being

“We know that environment is one of the main determinants of health and wellbeing and is estimated to account for 20% of all deaths in the WHO EU region. Hence it is important to talk about the zero pollution ambition – given the intrinsic link between Human Health and the Environment. We need to focus […]

Our answer to Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan public consultation

The European recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic makes the Health in All Policies approach ever more urgent 2’1 What do you think citizens can do to help beat cancer? Citizens have a decisive role to play on prevention. They can reduce the risk of getting cancer by promoting healthier lifestyles (e.g. physical activity) and protecting […]

Our COVID-19 Declaration

BRUSSELS, (May 27) The European recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic makes the Health in All Policies approach ever more urgent As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, European citizens remain largely affected by the virus and the subsequent measures taken around the world. Citizens are experiencing an unprecedented impact on their health & well-being as […]

Healthy Europe coalition calls for EU Charter on Wellbeing

BRUSSELS, (February 24) All Policies for a Healthy Europe – an inter-sectoral initiative that aims to ensure citizen’s health and wellbeing are a core priority for the European Union – has called on the European Commission to create a Charter on Wellbeing to effectively assess the impact of EU policies on the quality of people’s […]

Letter to All Policies for a Healthy Europe from Commissioner Andriukaitis

Dear Representatives of the “All Policies for a Healthy Europe” initiative, Thank you for your letter and the annexed manifesto to President Juncker, who has asked me to reply on his behalf. Throughout my mandate, I have greatly valued the dialogue with the European health community and the significant contribution of local, national and European […]

Open letter to President Sassoli

The Knowledge Partners of All Policies for a Healthy Europe issued a joint open letter, calling for health and well-being to be central to EU policy:   Dear President Sassoli, On behalf of All Policies for a Healthy Europe, we would like to congratulate you on your election as President of the European Parliament. We […]