Part, Chapter, Paragraph
5501 IV, 12. 10 | of objective 11~ ~Public health policy~Health and medical
5502 IV, 12. 10 | 11~ ~Public health policy~Health and medical care policy~
5503 IV, 12. 10 | Education policy~Public health policy~Health and medical
5504 IV, 12. 10 | policy~Public health policy~Health and medical care policy~ ~
5505 IV, 12. 10 | Domain of objective 8~ ~Health and medical care policy~
5506 IV, 12. 10 | policy~Education policy~Health and medical care policy~
5507 IV, 12. 10 | policy~Consumer policy~Public health policy~Child policy~Persistent
5508 IV, 12. 10 | Environmental policy~Public health policy~Consumer policy~Child
5509 IV, 12. 10 | Environmental policy~Public health policy~Noise~Road traffic
5510 IV, 12. 10 | policy~Consumer policy~Public health policy~Child policy~Environments
5511 IV, 12. 10 | Integration policy~ ~Psychosocial health determinants~ ~Determinants~
5512 IV, 12. 10 | of objective 3~ ~Public health policy~Child policy~Preschool
5513 IV, 12. 10 | of objective 10~ ~Public health policy~Health and medical
5514 IV, 12. 10 | 10~ ~Public health policy~Health and medical care policy~
5515 IV, 12. 10 | initiatives to improve public health~ ~A comprehensive public
5516 IV, 12. 10 | A comprehensive public health policy~ ~Sweden has a long
5517 IV, 12. 10 | history of attention to health and health determinants.
5518 IV, 12. 10 | attention to health and health determinants. Based on the
5519 IV, 12. 10 | National Committee for Public Health, a new and comprehensive
5520 IV, 12. 10 | comprehensive Swedish public health policy was adopted by the
5521 IV, 12. 10 | in April 2003. It pushes health up on the political agenda
5522 IV, 12. 10 | agenda and affords equity in health high priority. The overall
5523 IV, 12. 10 | societal conditions for good health on equal terms for the whole
5524 IV, 12. 10 | objectives” (areas of public health where efforts are to be
5525 IV, 12. 10 | A more health-promoting health service~7. Effective protection
5526 IV, 12. 10 | and a good reproductive health~9. Increased physical activity~
5527 IV, 12. 10 | objective domains comprise health determinants - structural
5528 IV, 12. 10 | s living conditions and health behaviours – and arenas
5529 IV, 12. 10 | implementation of the public health policy.~Central government
5530 IV, 12. 10 | direct impact on public health, are obliged to consider
5531 IV, 12. 10 | overall national public health aim”.~ ~A national steering
5532 IV, 12. 10 | steering committee for public health issues, under the leadership
5533 IV, 12. 10 | of the Minister of Public Health and Director-Generals of
5534 IV, 12. 10 | National Institute of Public Health (SNIPH) coordinates the
5535 IV, 12. 10 | of the policy. A Public Health Policy Report (2005 PHPR)
5536 IV, 12. 10 | Riksdag regarding public health issues.~ ~COUNTRY: CROATIA~ ~ ~
5537 IV, 12. 10 | or local level on major health determinants~ ~Determinants~
5538 IV, 12. 10 | Level of Priority for Public Health Interventions~Main regulations
5539 IV, 12. 10 | of Healthcare Measures – Health education~Programme – Increasing
5540 IV, 12. 10 | of Healthcare Measures – Health education~Safety awareness~
5541 IV, 12. 10 | Extreme weather events and health~Intermediate~ At local level~ ~
5542 IV, 12. 10 | Equity Act~Work-related health issues~ High~ At national
5543 IV, 12. 10 | level~Act on Occupational Health and Safety Insurance~National
5544 IV, 12. 10 | Programme on Safety and Health at Work Proposal~Deprivation
5545 IV, 12. 10 | Reducing Inequalities in Health~High ~ ~National Breast
5546 IV, 12. 10 | Programmes~Psychosocial health determinants~ Intermediate~ ~ ~
5547 IV, 12. 10 | children ~Genomics and public health~ Intermediate~ At national
5548 IV, 12. 10 | initiatives to improve public health~ ~EU Initiative~Level of
5549 IV, 12. 10 | empowerment~European strategy for health~ ~ ~ ~European public health
5550 IV, 12. 10 | health~ ~ ~ ~European public health programme~ At national level~ ~
5551 IV, 12. 10 | participation in Public Health Community Programme~Public
5552 IV, 12. 10 | Community Programme~Public health forum~At national level~ ~
5553 IV, 12. 10 | observers~Environment and health~National level~ ~During
5554 IV, 13.Acr | and Engineering~ ~ ~Public health can be defined as the art
5555 IV, 13.Acr | prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts
5556 IV, 13.Acr | society. It differs from health services in its focus on
5557 IV, 13.Acr | developed national public health strategies, accompanied
5558 IV, 13.Acr | tackling inequalities in health. Comprehensive policies
5559 IV, 13.Acr | reduce social inequalities in health can be seen in several countries.
5560 IV, 13.Acr | countries. The concept of health strategies has echoes at
5561 IV, 13.Acr | AIDS, drug dependence, health monitoring, injuries, rare diseases
5562 IV, 13.Acr | EU’s multi-annual public health programmes runs from 2003-
5563 IV, 13.Acr | the development of public health, enhancing the capability
5564 IV, 13.Acr | coordinated fashion to threats to health, and promoting health and
5565 IV, 13.Acr | to health, and promoting health and preventing disease by
5566 IV, 13.Acr | preventing disease by addressing health determinants across all
5567 IV, 13.Acr | European Commission’s Public Health Executive Agency.~ ~In addition,
5568 IV, 13.Acr | control specific diseases or health determinants.~ ~Public health
5569 IV, 13.Acr | health determinants.~ ~Public health spending is extremely difficult
5570 IV, 13.Acr | Austria (from 1.3% total health spending in 1995 to 2% in
5571 IV, 13.Acr | most countries, with public health and prevention accounting
5572 IV, 13.Acr | for about 0.5% of total health spending in Denmark and
5573 IV, 13.Acr | funding allocated to public health e.g. Austria, Finland, France,
5574 IV, 13.Acr | when interpreting public health expenditure data as some
5575 IV, 13.Acr | expenditure data as some public health programmes may not be accounted
5576 IV, 13.Acr | related to GP practice; public health activities may be coordinated
5577 IV, 13.Acr | particular occupational health programmes, may fall on
5578 IV, 13.Acr | effectiveness evaluation of public health interventions in the remit
5579 IV, 13.Acr | the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence.
5580 IV, 13.Acr | setting priorities in public health typically relate to population
5581 IV, 13.Acr | typically relate to population health status, epidemiological
5582 IV, 13. 1 | data, clearly show major health differences occurring among
5583 IV, 13. 1 | better the root causes of health (i.e. health determinants)
5584 IV, 13. 1 | root causes of health (i.e. health determinants) and to further
5585 IV, 13. 1 | of life expectancy or of health in many different sectors.~ ~
5586 IV, 13. 2. 1 | DALYs)~ ~In order to assess health priorities when planning
5587 IV, 13. 2. 1 | policies to promote public health and optimal organization
5588 IV, 13. 2. 1 | optimal organization of health services to implement policies
5589 IV, 13. 2. 1 | important to quantify the health loss due to different diseases
5590 IV, 13. 2. 1 | makes various types of health effects and both diseases
5591 IV, 13. 2. 2 | OECD)~ ~Furthermore, the health loss due to exposures from
5592 IV, 13. 2. 2 | for the largest avoidable health loss.~ ~A summary table
5593 IV, 13. 2. 2 | of diseases and selected health determinants~· In 2005,
5594 IV, 13. 2. 2 | one fifth of DALYs due to health conditions. In the WHO European
5595 IV, 13. 2. 2 | Swedish Institute of Public Health concluded that in the EU,
5596 IV, 13. 2. 2 | was found for the World Health Organization (WHO) European
5597 IV, 13. 2. 2 | million life-years of ill health every year. In 2002, poor
5598 IV, 13. 2. 2 | years (DALYs)~· The World Health Report 2002 also estimated
5599 IV, 13. 2. 3 | attributable to specific health determinants.~ ~Attributable
5600 IV, 13. 2. 3 | in 2000 due to selected health determinants for Western
5601 IV, 13. 2. 3 | children, people with existing health problems such as diabetes,
5602 IV, 13. 2. 3 | presents a comparison of the health loss (in DALYs) due to unhealthy
5603 IV, 13. 2. 3 | also carried out with the health loss due to a number of
5604 IV, 13. 2. 3 | comparison shows that the overall health loss due to an unhealthy
5605 IV, 13. 2. 3 | smoking. The theoretical health gains which could be achieved
5606 IV, 13. 2. 3 | composition could provide health gains equivalent to the
5607 IV, 13. 2. 3 | equivalent to the overall health loss due to the most common
5608 IV, 13. 2. 3 | shows that the demonstrable health loss due to microbiological
5609 IV, 13. 2. 3 | chemical contamination, the health loss is lower than that
5610 IV, 13. 2. 3 | environmental factors. However, the health loss due to allergens and
5611 IV, 13. 2. 3 | environment. In the context of health protection, allergens must
5612 IV, 13. 2. 3 | Table 13.5. Annual health loss (in DALYs) due to dietary
5613 IV, 13. 2. 3 | factors~Selection from Public Health Status Forecasts 2002~>300,
5614 IV, 13. 2. 3 | relates to the overall health loss due to the dietary
5615 IV, 13. 2. 3 | plus the proportion of the health loss attributable to overweight (
5616 IV, 13. 2. 3 | development of overweight. The health loss due to overweight has
5617 IV, 13. 2. 3 | to total abstinence. The health loss due to alcohol dependency
5618 IV, 13. 2. 4 | improvement in European health, resulting both in a reduced
5619 IV, 13. 3 | expectancy - often in good health - and easier choice over
5620 IV, 13. 3 | show that the status of health in the EU is improving fast
5621 IV, 13. 3 | above-mentioned indicators when health data concerning the EU Member
5622 IV, 13. 3 | Member States on pensions, health care, long-term care, education
5623 IV, 13. 3 | However, the complexity of the health systems and the many involved
5624 IV, 13. 3 | limitations when developing public health policies. The lack at European
5625 IV, 13. 3 | limitation facing public health decision makers. More research
5626 IV, 13. 3 | cost-effectiveness of public health intervention. The current
5627 IV, 13. 3 | applied in the area of public health in order to better inform
5628 IV, 13. 4 | and conditions including health and safety at work and reconciling
5629 IV, 13. 5 | through innovations in public health and medicine as well as
5630 IV, 13. 5 | quality of life and increased health care costs. Although the
5631 IV, 13. 5 | with advancing age, poor health is not an inevitable consequence
5632 IV, 13. 5 | expectancy, new and re-emerging health threats may potentially
5633 IV, 13. 5 | Europe. A deteriorating health system combined with the
5634 IV, 13. 5 | population on the part of health and social service providers
5635 IV, 13. 5 | fund generous pensions and health programs as there are fewer
5636 IV, 13. 5 | with peaks in demand for health care services. As the recent
5637 IV, 13. 5 | consequently, access to national health care systems much more sensitive
5638 IV, 13. 5 | to assume that demand for health care services will rise
5639 IV, 13. 5 | preventative approach to the health status of the elderly could
5640 IV, 13. 5 | not the causal factor of health care spending (but rather
5641 IV, 13. 5 | spending (but rather the health condition of a person),
5642 IV, 13. 5 | An increased demand on health care services will derive
5643 IV, 13. 5 | countries have begun to address health inequalities systematically
5644 IV, 13. 5 | preventing the ensuing health differences or addressing
5645 IV, 13. 5 | addressing the resulting poor health. This would ensure in practice
5646 IV, 13. 5 | Moreover, adequacy of current health services in Member States
5647 IV, 13. 5 | importance of well-performing health systems in a context of
5648 IV, 13. 5 | and increasing demands for health and healthcare has been
5649 IV, 13. 5 | Ministerial Conference on Health Systems “Health Systems.
5650 IV, 13. 5 | Conference on Health Systems “Health Systems. Health and Wealth”
5651 IV, 13. 5 | Systems “Health Systems. Health and Wealth” held in Tallinn (
5652 IV, 13. 5 | participation; invest in health systems and foster investment
5653 IV, 13. 5 | across sectors that influence health; promote transparency and
5654 IV, 13. 5 | and be accountable; make health systems more responsive;
5655 IV, 13. 5 | cooperation; ensure that health systems are prepared and
5656 IV, 13. 5 | line with their national health insurance coverage. Prior
5657 IV, 13. 5 | Commission invited all EU Health Ministers, a representative
5658 IV, 13. 5 | new High Level Group on Health Services and Medical Care
5659 IV, 13. 5 | and responsibilities;~· health professionals (continuing
5660 IV, 13. 5 | tackling rare diseases;~· health technology assessment, with
5661 IV, 13. 5 | supported by the public health programme;~· e-health, and
5662 IV, 13. 5 | information strategies for health services;~· hospital performances (
5663 IV, 13. 5 | EU level among national health services could provide a
5664 IV, 13. 6 | Prioritising children’s health~ ~
5665 IV, 13. 6. 1 | s);~· Cost to society of health care and on occasions of
5666 IV, 13. 6. 2 | 13.6.2 Health Services for Children~ ~
5667 IV, 13. 6. 2 | Similarly, analyses of health service availability and
5668 IV, 13. 6. 2 | Resources for Children’s Health Services~ ~Hospital services
5669 IV, 13. 6. 2 | in children’s wards and health services, where nurses should
5670 IV, 13. 6. 2 | 13.6.2.3 Primary Health Care for Children~ ~The
5671 IV, 13. 6. 2 | principle of subsidiarity for health service policy is strong
5672 IV, 13. 6. 2 | clear with regard to primary health care for children. In some
5673 IV, 13. 6. 2 | 13.6.2.4 School Health and Adolescent Health Services~ ~
5674 IV, 13. 6. 2 | School Health and Adolescent Health Services~ ~A particular
5675 IV, 13. 6. 2 | traditional pattern of school health service, with an identified
5676 IV, 13. 6. 2 | countries. However, lack of any health presence in schools leads
5677 IV, 13. 6. 2 | advisory role of the school health service is also important.
5678 IV, 13. 6. 2 | contact for a child with a health or health-related problem
5679 IV, 13. 6. 2 | problem. In cases of mental health, anxiety or depression,
5680 IV, 13. 6. 2 | or depression, a school health professional may be an available
5681 IV, 13. 6. 2 | confidential source of reproductive health advice is needed. Effective,
5682 IV, 13. 6. 2 | confidential adolescent health services are vital, though
5683 IV, 13. 6. 2 | 13.6.2.5 Child Health Service Quality~ ~Measurement
5684 IV, 13. 6. 2 | service quality for child health services is problematic.
5685 IV, 13. 6. 2 | more the development of health service quality measures
5686 IV, 13. 6. 3 | 13.6.3 Health Systems and Access for Children~ ~
5687 IV, 13. 6. 3 | Member State has its own health system and system of eligibility.
5688 IV, 13. 6. 3 | entitled to the right to health (United Nations, 1989).
5689 IV, 13. 6. 3 | 1989). A core test of any health system is equity of access
5690 IV, 13. 7. 3 | applied and translational health research is represented
5691 IV, 13. 7. 3 | investments in relation to the health domain in several of the
5692 IV, 13. 7. 3 | the ten FP7 themes. The “Health” theme (EUR 6.0 billion)
5693 IV, 13. 7. 3 | and technologies for human health translational research and
5694 IV, 13. 7. 3 | open new opportunities in health and disease management’.
5695 IV, 13. 7. 3 | 1.9 billion), the food, health and well-being topic is
5696 IV, 13. 7. 3 | concern research in the health domain. The Environment
5697 IV, 13. 7. 3 | European Environment and Health Actions Plan and, among
5698 IV, 13. 7. 3 | Research activities include health effects of the exposure
5699 IV, 13. 7. 3 | approaches for environment and health risk assessment. Overall,
5700 IV, 13. 7. 3 | research with a more public health (and less industrial) focus.
5701 IV, 13. 7. 3 | applied, and translational health research will be more favourable
5702 IV, 13. 7. 3 | behaviour, significant public health and healthcare related topics
5703 IV, 13. 7. 3 | socio-economic determinants of health, or health system improvement.
5704 IV, 13. 7. 3 | determinants of health, or health system improvement. And
5705 IV, 13. 7. 5 | Personal data protection and health information~ ~Throughout
5706 IV, 13. 7. 5 | comparable information on health and health-related behaviour
5707 IV, 13. 7. 5 | population, diseases and health systems at European level,
5708 IV, 13. 7. 5 | collect data on equity, health among population groups
5709 IV, 13. 7. 5 | diseases, use of cross-border health services, and patient safety.
5710 IV, 13. 7. 5 | satisfy these needs, feasible health information systems based
5711 IV, 13. 7. 5 | using person identifiable health data in public health monitoring.
5712 IV, 13. 7. 5 | identifiable health data in public health monitoring. Health data
5713 IV, 13. 7. 5 | public health monitoring. Health data require a high level
5714 IV, 13. 7. 5 | the public interest of health monitoring at population
5715 IV, 13. 7. 5 | of sensitive data (e.g. health data) states that such processing
5716 IV, 13. 7. 5 | In the context of public health monitoring, the first relevant
5717 IV, 13. 7. 5 | processing of person identifiable health data is allowed where this
5718 IV, 13. 7. 5 | treatment or the management of health care services. Thirdly,
5719 IV, 13. 7. 5 | structures of the EU Public Health Programme) became aware
5720 IV, 13. 7. 5 | problems in the field of public health monitoring due to data protection
5721 IV, 13. 7. 5 | in the context of public health monitoring.~ ~The Work Group
5722 IV, 13. 7. 5 | explorative survey among public health researchers, data protection
5723 IV, 13. 7. 5 | problems encountered in public health monitoring, and of differences
5724 IV, 13. 7. 5 | processing person identifiable health data for public health purposes.
5725 IV, 13. 7. 5 | identifiable health data for public health purposes. Major problems
5726 IV, 13. 7. 5 | use of person identifiable health data for public health purposes
5727 IV, 13. 7. 5 | identifiable health data for public health purposes differ to great
5728 IV, 13. 7. 5 | allow to have a suitable health Information system at European
5729 IV, 13. 7. 5 | possibilities for public health monitoring following from
5730 IV, 13. 7. 5 | subjects. However, in a public health context this is very costly
5731 IV, 13. 7. 5 | data processing for public health monitoring without explicit
5732 IV, 13. 7. 5 | as the basis for public health monitoring . If this interpretation
5733 IV, 13. 7. 5 | result in a harmonized public health field, as it will be up
5734 IV, 13. 7. 5 | data processing for public health purposes. Given this consequence,
5735 IV, 13. 7. 5 | prevention and management of health care services at individual
5736 IV, 13. 7. 5 | Directive relevant for public health monitoring. After all, the
5737 IV, 13. 7. 5 | attainment of a high level of health protection, to improve health,
5738 IV, 13. 7. 5 | health protection, to improve health, to prevent disease, and
5739 IV, 13. 7. 5 | obviate sources of danger to health. Without proper public health
5740 IV, 13. 7. 5 | health. Without proper public health monitoring systems at national,
5741 IV, 13. 8 | most challenging public health emergencies.~The public
5742 IV, 13. 8 | emergencies.~The public health priorities, health management,
5743 IV, 13. 8 | public health priorities, health management, health prioritisation,
5744 IV, 13. 8 | priorities, health management, health prioritisation, and issues
5745 IV, 13. 8 | mapping and identifying health NGOs in the different Member
5746 IV, 13. 8 | as a partner and actor in health politics at EU and national
5747 IV, 13. 8 | web. The European Public Health Alliance is a European Platform
5748 IV, 13. 8 | is a European Platform of health and health-related NGOs
5749 IV, 13. 8 | NGOs in Europe. The World Health Organisation has a long
5750 IV, 13. 8 | at optimising profits.~ ~“Health NGOs” are usually considered
5751 IV, 13. 8 | Historically a key activity of health NGOs. Most notably, for
5752 IV, 13. 8 | sexual and reproductive health, HIV AIDS, health care etc.
5753 IV, 13. 8 | reproductive health, HIV AIDS, health care etc. Service providers
5754 IV, 13. 8 | Advocating for public health at EU level~ ~Along with
5755 IV, 13. 8 | examples include the EU Health policy Forum, the European
5756 IV, 13. 8 | comprise a Green Paper on health services, on nutrition and
5757 IV, 13. 8 | physical activity, on mental health, on the health strategy
5758 IV, 13. 8 | on mental health, on the health strategy of the EU.~ ~NGOs
5759 IV, 13. 8 | elected representatives. The Health and Consumer Intergroup
5760 IV, 13. 9 | public spending~on pensions, health and long-term care, education
5761 IV, 13. 9 | 1999): The Interplay of Health Policy, Incentives and Regulations
5762 IV, 13. 9 | editors) (2002): Child Health Indicators of Life and Development (
5763 IV, 13. 9 | European Commission; Centre for Health Planning and Management,
5764 IV, 13. 9 | for European Commission Health and Consumer Protection
5765 IV, 13. 9 | Mechtler R (2003): Child Health Indicators for Europe –
5766 IV, 13. 9 | European Journal of Public Health, 13, 3, Supplement, 38-46.~ ~
5767 IV, 13. 9 | al (2006) Our food, our health, Healthy diet and safe food
5768 IV, 13. 9 | WHO (2003): The World Health Report. Shaping the future.
5769 IV, 13. 9 | Shaping the future. World Health Organization, Geneva 2003. [
5770 IV, 13. 9 | WHO (2005): The European health report 2005. Public health
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