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The European Public Health Association Newsletter – July 2023 |
1. Editorial
Welcome to the July issue of our EUPHA newsletter. We hope you manage to stay cool during this hot summer month and have enjoyed or are enjoying your well-deserved summer break. This newsletter provides you with updates on public health in Europe and beyond.
Wishing you a pleasant read.
Iveta Nagyova, EUPHA president and Marieke Verschuuren, EUPHA Executive director
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2. EUPHA update
EUPHA president participating in the WHO Euro summer school
EUPHA president, Dr Iveta Nagyova, participated in the WHO Euro Summer School ‘A systems approach to the promotion of healthy lifestyles’, held 18-20 July 2023 in Nice, France. Her presentation was on the first day of the summer school and on healthy choices, behavioural insights and behavioural economics to nudge people towards adopting healthy behaviours and combating non-communicable diseases. This summer school had the pleasure and honour of having WHO Regional Director Hans Kluge attend in person!
PROPHET
Defining personalised prevention
PROPHET presented at various events throughout Europe
PROPHET latest scientific work
EUPHA Executive director participates in the 7th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health
WHO Europe’s 7th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health took place 5-7 July 2023 in Hungary. Our Executive Director, Marieke Verschuuren participated. Her reflection after the first day: “you could feel the urgency and the drive of the policymakers, international organisations, civil society organisations and other stakeholders present to take the actions needed to protect and improve the health of humans, animals and the environment.” On the last day of the conference the countries of the WHO European Region adopted the Budapest Declaration, pushing action to enhance environment and health. Learn more about this conference here.
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4. European Public Health Conference
16th EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH CONFERENCE, DUBLIN, IRELAND, 8 – 11 NOVEMBER 2023
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4. European Journal of Public Health
Advanced articles – July 2023
Smoke-free home restrictions in Armenia and Georgia: motives, barriers and secondhand smoke reduction behaviors
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5. Call for proposals, job opportunities
European Health Union: HERA Invest offers €100 million for innovative solutions to health threats
This month, the Commission and the European Investment Bank announce the creation of HERA Invest, a €100 million top-up to the InvestEU programme, to support research and development (R&D) in the most pressing cross-border health threats, financed by the EU4Health programme. Currently, European companies find it difficult to access sufficient public and private funding for the development and scaling up of cutting-edge solutions in health and life sciences. Innovation is needed to respond to priority health threats such as pathogens with high pandemic potential or resistance to antibiotics.
Director and Full Professor in Epidemiology and Public Health at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)
The position is offered by the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern, Switzerland. The application deadline is 30 August. Check out the job add here.
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6. Interesting news
Making Health for All Policies
This policy brief Making Health for All Policies: Harnessing the co-benefits of health, published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (WHO/Euro), highlights that health actors will not achieve their aims on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) unless they are able to change the narrative. Health in All Policies is a key tool in making that change but is sometimes overlooked as too focused on health goals. There is a need to convince other sectors that health contributes to their aims and to achieving goals across sectors and to demonstrate that the co-benefits of working intersectorally is key to making real progress achieving the SDGs. Read the policy brief here.
WHO/Europe and European Commission establish new partnership for better long-term care
WHO/Europe and the European Commission have joined forces to support countries in the European Union working to improve long-term care. The new partnership, which will inform WHO/Europe’s work in the European Region, will focus on improving access and quality of long-term care services while providing important support to informal caregivers, who often play a crucial role in care provision. Read more here.
Latest news from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Webinar recording on How can the EU support sustainable innovation and access
During the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2023, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs worked together to better understand how the EU can support sustainable innovation and access to effective antibiotics. The EU has an important role to play both in combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and in contributing to global solutions.
Reforms in place in Kyrgyzstan amid health workforce and financing challenges
Kyrgyzstan faces health workforce shortages and health financing challenges, but has embraced far-reaching health reforms, recent documents on the country’s health system published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies revealed.
Health experts alert to diverse barriers for patients in accessing care during the European Public Health Week
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies kicked off the third day (24 May) of the European Public Health Week, an initiative by the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), under the theme ‘access to care’.
Access to care is essential for patients to obtain diagnostics, access treatments, but also for health promotion and prevention. However, very often this is not a given due to gaps in health coverage.
Webinar recordings from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
How can the EU support sustainable innovation and access to effective antibiotics.
During the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2023, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs worked together to better understand how the EU can support sustainable innovation and access to effective antibiotics. The EU has an important role to play both in combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and in contributing to global solutions.
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7. Upcoming courses and conferences
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8. Interesting publications
Assessing resilience of a health system is difficult but necessary to prepare for the next crisis
BMJ | 4 July 2023
Publications from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Health and Care Data: Approaches to data linkage for evidence-informed policy
Health services research increasingly relies on data linkage, including to datasets outside the health sector
Evidence-based health policy requires good health services research, which in turn requires access to comprehensive high-quality data. With the digital transformation of healthcare, ever-more dynamic landscapes of datasets, and the availability of ‘big data’, health services research increasingly relies on linking data within and outside of health for meaningful insights.
France: health system review 2023
The Statutory Health Insurance system is universal and provides a generous benefits basket
The French health system is structurally based on a social health insurance approach, but it also shares National Health System goals reflected in the single public payer model, the importance of tax-based revenue for financing healthcare, strong state intervention and residency-based benefits. The Statutory Health Insurance currently covers almost 100% of the resident population under various schemes, but cost-sharing is required for all essential services. Coverage is also available to undocumented migrants under certain conditions.
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9. European Institutes news
European Medicines Agency (EMA) resources for academics and researchers
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) makes available resource materials including videos and links to workshops for academics and researchers interested in learning more about EMA activities. check out EMA’s training mateiral, workshops and scientific events of particular relevance to academics and researchers here.
The subcommittee on public health (SANT) holds hearing on medicine shortages
During the hearing of 13 July on ‘Medicine shortages’, Members of the SANT subcommittee of the European Parliament held a debate on the role of the European Commission and Member States regarding any necessary action to restore pharmaceutical sovereignty in Europe and local pharmaceutical production, with particular attention to the priority given to essential and strategic medicines.
Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union
On 1 July 2023, Spain took over the presidency of the Council of the EU. Spain aspires to work for a European Health Union. “The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that we cannot aspire to build an area of prosperity without first guaranteeing the most basic thing: people’s health,” as stated in the presidency’s programme.
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10. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control news
Eurosurveillance – Volume 28, Issue 26, 29 June 2023
Surveillance
Eurosurveillance – Volume 28, Issue 27, 06 July 2023
Rapid communication
Outbreaks
Surveillance
Research
Eurosurveillance – Volume 28, Issue 28, 13 July 2023
Rapid communication
Outbreaks
Eurosurveillance – Volume 28, Issue 29, 20 July 2023
Surveillance
Eurosurveillance – Volume 28, Issue 30, 27 July 2023
Research
Systematic Review
Miscellaneous
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11. WHO news
Health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience in the WHO European Region (Preparedness 2.0)
Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on the development of a strategy and action plan on health emergency preparedness, response, and resilience (Preparedness 2.0) in the WHO European Region, held their inaugural meeting 27-28 June 2023 in Copenhagen Denmark. Learn more about this Preparedness 2.0 in the European Region here.
Without preparation the heat can be deadly
“Beyond adapting to our new reality this summer, we must look to the years and decades ahead. There is a desperate and urgent need for regional and global action to effectively tackle the climate crisis, which poses an existential threat to the human race.” – Hans Kluge on 18 July 2023, read the full statement here.
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