26 Amendments of Milan CABRNOCH related to 2010/2089(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, while citizens live, on average, longer and healthier lives than previous generations, the EU is faced in the context of an ageing population with an important challenge, namely the large gaps in health which exist between and within EU Member States,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas health inequalities are also caused by unequal access of citizens to information about health and illness, healthy life styles, effective disease prevention, early detection and proper treatment,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas to make informed decisions about their own health and how to care for it, citizens need access to information about their health and health care, in the form of both a pull-out and a push-out system,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas, apart from genetic determinants, health is influenced above all by citizens’ life styles, by their access to care for their own health and to disease prevention,and by their access to treatment for short-term and long-term illnesses,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas inequalities in health between people in higher and lower educational, occupational and income groups have been found in all Member States, a fact which is also connected with a lower level of awareness amongst citizens about health and disease, healthy life styles, effective disease prevention, early detection and proper treatment,
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas health inequalities are due to differences between population groups in a wide range of factors which affect health, including: living conditions; health-related behaviours;citizens’ access to care for their own health and to disease prevention, and also to treatment for short-term and long-term illnesses, including access to information about health and disease; education and health education, occupation and income; health care, disease prevention and health promotion services; and public policies influencing the quantity, quality and distribution of these factors,
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the combination of poverty with other vulnerabilities, such as childhood or old age, disability or minority background, further increases health riskinequalities,
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the key suggestions made by the Commission in its Communication entitled ‘Solidarity in health: reducing health inequalities in the EU’: 1) making a more equitable distribution ofaccess to health care part of our overall goals for social and economic development, 2) improving the collection of data and knowledge basesabout social inequalities in health (including measuring, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting), 3) building commitment across society for reducing health inequalities, 4) meetingresponding to the needs of vulnerable groups, and 5) developing the contribution of EU policies to the reduction of health inequalities;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that health is decisively influenced by citizens' behaviour, their life style, their access to care for their own health and to disease prevention, and also their access to treatment for short-term and long-term illnesses, and therefore stresses the importance of support for health, health education, measures to encourage a healthy life style, prevention and proper access to diagnostics and treatment of disease;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to cooperate and to pay greater attention to health promotion, to health education to promoting a healthy lifestyle, to prevention and to ensuring that a sound approach is taken to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Encourages all the Member States to invest in social, educational, environmental and health services infrastructure and to pass on information on good practice;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that information on health, healthy lifestyles, healthcare, prevention opportunities, early diagnosis of diseases and suitable treatments is available in a form and in languages that everyone can understand, using new information and communication technologies, with particular reference to online health services;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Member States to ensure that, in line with the Commission communication on a Digital Agenda for Europe, their citizens have access to information on their health and on the healthcare that is available, so as to enable them fully and freely to participate in the making of decisions concerning their own health and healthcare and to take their own share of responsibility for their health;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Member States to promote the introduction of telemedicine technologies, which can significantly reduce geographical disparities in access to certain types of healthcare, with particular reference to specialist care, in particular in border regions;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to promote policies aiming at ensuring healthy life conditions and healthy-lifestyle information for all children, including actions to support pregnant women and parents;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that, in addition to national governments, regional authorities in many countries have an important role in public health and health services and thus need to be actively involved; points out that local governments, workplaces, and other stakeholders also have a vital contribution to make, in particular as regards providing patients with information on health and sickness, healthy lifestyles, effective disease prevention, early diagnosis of diseases and appropriate treatments;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Council and the Commission to give greater recognition within the Europe 2020 strategy to the fact that health and well-being are key to fighting exclusion and to include indicators stratified by socio-economic status and the state of public health in the monitoring of the Europe 2020 strategy;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission to continue to develop, in conjunction with the Member States, the standards and procedures required in order for citizens to have access to information on their own health and on healthcare, so as to enable them to participate effectively in the making of decisions concerning their own health and to take their own share of responsibility;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Calls on the Commission to foster, in conjunction with the Member States, the development of telemedicine services as a means of reducing geographical disparities in healthcare provision at both regional and local levels;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop aimprove the quality of the common set of indicators to monitor health inequalities by age, sex, socio-economic status and geographic dimension and to set a methodology to audit the health situation in Member States aimed at identifying and prioritising areas of improvement and best practices;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the reduction of health inequalities is fully addressed in, among other things, the future initiative on healthy, active ageing;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to develop ways to engage and involve all the relevant stakeholders at European level in promoting the uptake and dissemination of good practice in the public health sphere;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to assist Member States in making better use of EU cohesion policy and structural funds in order to support projects to address factors contributing to health inequalities; calls also on the Commission to support activities financed underhelp Member States make better use of the PROGRESS programme;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18