16.01.12

The EU Health Policy Forum answer to the EC consultation on chronic diseases is enclosed below.

IMPASHS “Evaluation of the impact of smoke-free policies in Member States on exposure to second-hand smoke and tobacco consumption “ is a collaborative three-year project being funded by the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Health and Consumers.

The general objective of the project is to analyse the existing policies on SHS control in European countries and their impact on SHS exposure and tobacco consumption, and to develop a system of indicators to evaluate and monitor them at local, national and European level.

A high-level conference on pictorial health warnings and standardised packaging for tobacco products will be held in the European Parliament, Brussels, on 29 February 2012 from 18:00 to 21:00. The event will be co-hosted by Members of the European Parliament Karl-Heinz Florenz, Glenis Willmott, Carl Schlyter and Antonyia Parvanova (t.b.c.).

06.12.11

The WHO Regional Office for Europe is currently preparing a collection of case studies, featuring "the art of the possible". They showcase what can be done, given determination, effort and goodwill, when a country responds to the challenge posed by the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).

WHO-Europe invites your contributions and ideas by 15 January 2012.

The European Commission has developed the Health-EU portal, the official public health portal of the European Union, and its newsletter giving easy access to a selection of the latest news and activities in the field of public health at European and international levels. Both are fully multilingual (22 languages) and the newsletter appears twice a month (see below).

14.10.2011

Copy of letter from NGOs, charities, researchers, industry representatives and MEPs to President Barroso on the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive.

The draft Business Plan
The draft Business Plan for the new CEN Workshop is available on the CEN website and the EPAAC website.
 
Kick-off meeting 2 December

The American Cancer Society urges civil society to ask national governments to ask for strong commitments to take the following actions i.a.:

• accelerate implementation of the FCTC
• recognize that substantially reducing tobacco consumption is the most achievable action to reduce NCDs.

The full communiqué is available below.

The ENSH-Global Network for Tobacco Free Healthcare Services opens the call for the ENSH Gold Forum Process which will be held in conjunction with  the 20th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) in April 2012 (Taiwan).

Towards the end of ECToH conference 2011, the Amsterdam Resolution was presented to Mr. Paul Huijts, representative of the Dutch Minister of Health. You can read the full text of the 2011 Amsterdam Resolution in the attachment below.