Health
Eloi Laurent: “An alliance between social justice and ecological sustainability must take over”
Monday 01 February 2021 |
Catherine André | Alternatives Economiques
The Covid-19 pandemic is a cruel reminder that ecosystem vitality and human health are closely linked. For Eloi Laurent, "the best economic policy is a good health policy and the best health policy is a good environmental policy. We see that there is no trade-off between economy and environment."
One in three European regions have higher COVID-19 deaths in second wave
Monday 14 December 2020 |
Clara Guibourg | Newsworthy
Compared to the first wave in spring, excess deaths this autumn are less concentrated in a few hard-hit regions. As Europe’s second wave begins to pass its peak, we’ve gathered data from over 750 regions in Europe so as to track the real toll of the pandemic.
The poor state of Europe’s health systems
Tuesday 15 December 2020 |
Céline Mouzon | Alternatives Economiques
Slow starts, supply shortages, disorganised and ad hoc management… Responses to COVID-19 across Europe have hardly been an occasion for pride. The OECD stresses the need to take into account the social inequalities in health, and consider health an investment rather than an expense.
The foreign companies awarded contracts for the Covid-19 response in Italy
Monday 21 December 2020 |
Openpolis Since the beginning of the pandemic, Italian authorities have allocated almost five billion euro for the supply of materials necessary for containing the spread of the virus. 1.7 billion went to foreign companies. An analysis of the public contracts awarded in response to Covid-19 in Italy.
Bucharest still has an AIDS problem
Tuesday 17 November 2020 |
Lorenzo Ferrari | OBC Transeuropa
Contrary to the trend across Europe, the Romanian capital has seen a drastic increase in AIDS cases in the last decade. The crisis is fueled by the use of synthetic drugs and lack of harm reduction services
The K factor: why it matters where we are infected with the coronavirus
Tuesday 17 November 2020 |
Artur Galocha Borja Andrino
Daniele Grasso
Kiko Llanneras
| Sonar Europe
A growing number of studies highlight the importance of clusters and superspreaders in the transmission of COVID-19. In order to fight the epidemic, we must have a better understanding of where outbreaks are happening and consider new ways of tracking cases.
Road traffic pollution costs billions in lost wellbeing in European cities
Tuesday 27 October 2020 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
VoxEurop
Five years after the Dieselgate scandal, new research puts some figures on the social costs of vehicle emissions in over 400 European cities. It turns out that the annual damage to each city is worth €385 million on average.
Traffic pollution costs €60 billion per year in healthcare
Tuesday 15 January 2019 |
Déborah Berthier | VoxEurop
Each year 500 000 Europeans die prematurely as a result of air pollution. Road transport alone causes 18 percent of air pollution.
The top 100 European places where Dieselgate kills the most
in depth
Wednesday 04 April 2018 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
VoxEurop
Excess diesel emissions produce a tiny portion of harmful dusts. Yet, they cause dozens of deaths in Europe’s highly populated road traffic hotspots.
Unhealthy environment makes unhealthy Europeans
Wednesday 30 September 2020 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | VoxEurop
According to the latest European Environment Agency report, a significant proportion of the burden of disease in Europe continues to be attributed to environmental pollution resulting from human activity.
