Implementing the European Action Plan on Alcohol

Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on a European Union Action Plan to Combat Drugs

Rehabilitation in Madagascar: Challenges in implementing the World Health Organization Disability Action Plan.

OBJECTIVE To provide an update on rehabilitation in Madagascar by using local knowledge to outline the potential barriers and facilitators for implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) Disability Action Plan (DAP). METHODS A 14-day extensive workshop programme (September-October 2014) was held at the University Hospital Antananarivo and Antsirabe, with the Department of Health Mad...

Task Group on Safety Margins Action Plan (SMAP), Safety Margins Action Plan - Final Report

The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. The OECD is also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy and the challenges of an ageing population. The Organisati...

Understanding the Role of Public Administration in Implementing Action on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities

Many of the societal level factors that affect health – the ‘social determinants of health (SDH)’ – exist outside the health sector, across diverse portfolios of government, and other major institutions including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the private sector. This has created growing interest in how to create and implement public policies which will drive better and fairer health...

A framework action plan to fight tuberculosis in the European Union.

Framework Action Plan to fight tuberculosis in the European Union 2 PREFACE The European Union's (EU) Health Commissioner, Markos Kyprianou, called on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in March 2007 to develop a proposal for an action plan to fight tuberculosis (TB) in the EU 1. This initiative reflects the priority given to TB in the EU where this disease is a conti...