In 2008 the European Parliament and Council gave strategic directions to future European activities on combatting cancer, and sought to further support Member States in their efforts to reduce the burden of this disease. Particular attention was given to the most frequent cancers...
During 2018, the European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP) followed an annual decentralised and centralised testing model, requesting participating laboratories to collect gonococcal isolates during the period September–November. Susceptibility testing ...
For the first time in its existence, ECDC managed to update 75% of the surveillance data collected on EU- reportable diseases and pathogens available in its Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases within one month after the end date of the data collection. The interactive onlin...
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of individuals and societies, including on the economy and labour markets, is unprecedented. The impact of the global health emergency has placed a growing number of businesses under threat, putting the jobs of more and more worker...
The Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown exacerbated energy poverty and insecurity for millions of customers worldwide. Many governments introduced emergency measures to protect energy consumers in this very delicate phase. - We review and classify the policies implement...
Scientific evidence shows that the climate is changing largely as a result of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission. Even if all countries adhere to their current commitments a rise of 3 °C is predicted. Climate change already has negative effects on health. The main impacts on h...
The INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index is an experimental adaptation of the INFORM Epidemic Risk Index and aims to identify: “countries at risk from health and humanitarian impacts of COVID-19 that could overwhelm current national response capacity, and therefore lead to a need for addit...
This report presents the situation of HIV testing in Europe and Central Asia. It summarises data on implementation of national guidelines that shape HIV testing policies, the provision and uptake of HIV testing services in general and among key populations, and efforts being made...
Funded by the Third EU Public Health Programme, Optimity Advisors, together with the European Public Health Alliance and the study experts Prof. Elisabetta De Vito and Dr Philipa Mladovsky, undertook this study on the health status of newly arrived migrants and refugees in the EU...
This evaluation of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (the ‘NHCR’), with regard to harmonised nutrient criteria governing their use (Article 4.1) and health claims made on plants and their preparations (Article 13), assessed the impacts of t...
