Health
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.
COVID-19: an excuse for increased digital surveillance?
Tuesday 06 October 2020 |
Anne Damiani | Euractiv
To monitor the spread of the new coronavirus, EU member states have taken additional surveillance measures potentially putting some fundamental rights at risk.
A fraction of European regions account for a majority of COVID-19 deaths
Wednesday 24 June 2020 |
Clara Guibourg | Newsworthy
We have gathered data on excess deaths from 500 European regions to better understand the spread of the virus. Some regions report up to three times as many deaths as usual since March, but a large part of Europe has been able to live through the first wave of the pandemic without any significant excess death.
COVID-19 pandemic exposes southern Europe’s nursing shortage
Large investigation
Tuesday 23 June 2020 |
Ángela Bernardo Carmen Torrecillas
María Álvarez Del Vayo
| Civio
For weeks, Spain and Italy were epicentres of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their health defences had an important gap: large staffing shortages and low ratios of nurses to doctors. At the same time, nurses had higher infection rates than the general population, mainly because of the lack of personal protective equipment.
Almost all European regions have managed to bring excess deaths down
Monday 24 August 2020 |
Clara Guibourg | Newsworthy
As summer nears its end, it is becoming possible to evaluate the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on European regions over nearly six months. We have analysed data from 776 subnational regions to better understand where the virus is continuing to hit hard.
