The Institute of Health Equity (IHE) has drafted a report exploring actions the Health Workforce can take to positively influence the social determinants of health and tackle health inequalities.The report focusses on three main areas of action - practice, education, and incentives, monitoring, and directives.This paper is currently out ...

2012 promises to be a landmark year for major sports events, and on behalf of the European Healthy Stadia Network, we wanted to brief stakeholders involved in European public health on UEFA’s official health programme for the EURO 2012 European Football Championships.Entitled  ‘RESPECT Your Health’, the ...

Today is European Equal Pay Day. This particular focus was launched by the European Commission in 2011. The EU-wide event marks the extra number of days that women must work to match the amount of money earned by men. The European Commission wants to ...

In January, a Thematic Social Forum in Porto Alegre has started to prepare Rio+20. The participating social movements clearly reject the proposals for a ‘green economy’, though the trade unions have some doubts. Surely, the green economy can be seen as a capitalist attempt to appropriate the last bits ...

A study published in France "The city, life, death in Paris in its suburbs" shows that life expectancy is different if you live in Saint-Rémy-les-Chevreuse, Port Royal, La Plaine-Saint-Denis or in some other metro stations of the B Line. Life expectancy can change of 50% according to ...