by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 26, 2023 | Opinion
Guest article by the Italian Association of Doctors for the Environment More than 100 million citizens of the European Union cook with gas, including more than half of the homes in Italy, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary. Only few know how this effects...
by European Public Health Alliance | Apr 26, 2023 | Opinion
Guest article by the European Respiratory Society For decades, scientific studies have made clear that air pollution is linked to many acute and chronic illnesses such as cardiorespiratory diseases, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)....
by Bhavani Srinivasan | Mar 11, 2023 | Opinion
This article follows on an overview of the European Semester’s Spring Package and the European Pillar of Social Rights released by EPHA in October 2022. It provides an excellent introduction to the basic premise of the European Semester and how it can take a more...
by Bhavani Srinivasan | Mar 9, 2023 | Opinion
Well-being economy and public health The well-being economy provides a long-term way out of an unprecedented existential crisis, a perfect storm of climate and ecological breakdowns, pandemic and wars, the majority of which are direct products of our current economic...
by Bhavani Srinivasan | Mar 9, 2023 | Opinion
More than five decades ago, the Club of Rome warned the world that its natural systems would not be able to support the rates of economic and population growth forever and that indeed there are ’Limits to Growth’. Today, the planetary boundaries keep being pushed...
by Bhavani Srinivasan | Mar 4, 2023 | Opinion
Obesity is a major public health challenge affecting 800 million people worldwide, with rates rapidly increasing (1). It is expected that one quarter of the global population will be living with obesity by 2035, and childhood obesity rates are set to double (1). In...
