by European Public Health Alliance | Sep 3, 2018 | Opinion
By Sian Copley, Veronica Said Pullicino, Lenneke Schrier, Stefano del Torso European Academy of Paediatrics and Young EAP Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a major cause of mortality worldwide – in 2015 NCDs accounted for 70% of global mortality, with 80% of...
by European Public Health Alliance | Aug 8, 2018 | Opinion
In 2018, sources highlighting the critical importance of investment in early childhood abound. Authors such as Nobel laureate economist James Heckman and John Bennet underline how investing in disadvantaged children promotes social justice, protects children rights,...
by EPHA | Apr 26, 2018 | Statements
More than 20 organisations within the EU Alliance for Investing in Children and the Child Rights Action Group (CRAG) urge the EU institutions and its Member States to invest in children and develop a future Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) that works to end child...
by Bhavani Srinivasan | Apr 12, 2018
STOP Childhood Obesity Over a four-year period (2018-22), the STOP project has generated scientifically sound, novel and policy-relevant evidence on the factors that have contributed to the spread of childhood obesity in European countries and on the effects of...
by European Public Health Alliance | Mar 1, 2018 | Opinion
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by all European Union (EU) countries and used by the European Commission to guide its actions,[1] provides that “In all actions concerning children … the best interests of the child shall be a primary...
