Health
Covid-19: the plastic pandemic
Monday 24 May 2021 |
Marco Ranocchiari | OBC Transeuropa
In Europe, the period 2020-2021 was to mark the turning point in the fight against plastic waste, one of the most urgent problems of our century. Then came the new Coronavirus: with masks, gloves, and anti-contagion packaging, the risk of a step back is increasingly concrete
Meetings on public health between European Commission and lobbies have been booming
Monday 24 May 2021 |
Miguel Ángel Gavilanes Antonio Hernández
Maria G. Zornoza
| Civio
Meetings with dozens of assistants and thousands of civil servants fly under the radar of the EU's transparency register. The heads of the pharmaceutical industry, EFPIA is one of the most active lobby groups. In less than a year and a half since the start of the pandemic they have held as many meetings with senior Commission officials as in the last five years.
Food alerts in Europe: from Polish chickens to Indian sesame seeds
Tuesday 16 March 2021 |
Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
Last year, more than half of the alerts issued by the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed concerned products from non-EU countries. If these countries are unable to adapt their production chains to EU food safety regulations over the next few years, the risks to European citizens will continue to grow.
The pandemic and young people in the Balkans
Monday 30 August 2021 |
Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
The Covid-19 restrictive measures in the Balkans risk putting young people – a segment of the population that has been in constant demographic decline for years – in even more difficulty. A look at the pandemic and the state of the vaccination campaign in the Balkans for the youngest population.
What a year of pandemic tells us about European healthcare systems
Wednesday 28 April 2021 |
Kostas Zafeiropoulos Janine Louloudi
| MIIR
Mainly three things: the number of doctors and nurses and the population density of a region are more important indicators than the number of ICUs in predicting Covid-19 deaths, there does not appear to be a causal association between per-capita numbers of ICUs and deaths from Covid, and excess mortality showed a correlation with the "pandemic waves".
The uncountable: How Covid-19 affected migrants and refugees’ health
Friday 15 January 2021 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | Voxeurop
With COVID-19 in the spotlight, refugees and undocumented migrants disappeared from public attention. Precisely what swept these communities away from the agenda, however, disproportionately affected them.
The impact of EU funds on Covid-19 crisis management
Friday 19 February 2021 |
Openpolis Before the implementation of additional allocations such as the recovery fund, one of the first instruments put in place by the EU was the possibility for states to redirect their own European funds to deal with the Covid-19 crisis. Let's see how this process played out, in Italy and in other countries.
Small EU countries had more COVID-related deaths per million since pandemic started
Sunday 25 April 2021 |
Anne Damiani | Euractiv
While the EU’s most populous countries are recording the most overall COVID-19-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Bulgaria had the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths in relation to their populations during the same period.
Europe faces ‘obesity epidemic’ as figure almost tripled in 40 years
Friday 30 April 2021 |
Anne Damiani | Euractiv
Last week, the European Parliament called for the better treatment and management of obesity as average obesity levels in the EU have risen by 161% since 1975.
France worried about mental health of its lockdown-stricken citizens
Wednesday 28 April 2021 |
Anne Damiani | Euractiv
After more than a year of successive lockdowns implemented by European governments to curb the spread of COVID-19, the French authorities are now worried about the mental health of their citizens.
