20 Amendments of Raül ROMEVA i RUEDA related to 2012/2129(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
– having regard to the Council conclusions "Innovative approaches for chronic diseases in public health and healthcare systems" of 7 December 2010
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
– having regard to the Belgian Presidency's report of 23 November 2010 on the gender pay gap
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 18 October 2006 on breast cancer in the enlarged European Union,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25 a (new)
Citation 25 a (new)
– having regard to its report of 8 February 2011 on the face of female poverty in the European Union
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas elderly women are particularly vulnerable to climate change related health impacts, whereas the majority of European studies have shown that women are more at risk, in both relative and absolute terms following studies from the heat-wave in France in 2003 (which caused approximately 15 000 deaths in France and mostly affected old women,
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas in 2010 the employment rate among women aged between 55 and 64 was 38.6% , compared with 54.5% for men in that age group, whereas following EU targets 75% of the population aged 20-64 should to be employed by 2020
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas women earn less than men (the average gender pay gap in the EU is 17.5%),; whereas the gender pay between 55-64 years of age is more than 30% in some Member States and up to 48% for 65 and more years of age
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas in some Member States, where indictors for measuring the gender pension gap has been already been developed, women at the age of 65 receive an individual pension that is almost 60% lower than that of men of the same age, whereas an EU-indicator for measuring the gender pension gap is urgently needed;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas in Europe 23.9% of the population aged between 50 and 64 are at risk of poverty, the exact percentages being 25.9% for women compared with 21.7% of men; whereas figures in the European Union are ranging from 39% and 49% in some countries and climbs to 51% in one EU country,
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas older migrant women are often suffering from poor socio-economic situations and face difficulties to benefit from social protection measures and access to national healthcare systems, which can affect their living standards and health status
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital X
Recital X
X. whereas many women use oral contraceptives while they are of fertile age and then move on to hormone replacement therapy during the menopause;; whereas 75% of menopausal women experience some problems or discomfort, but only 10-20% seek medical help, whereas hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is still surrounded by controversy
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Y a (new)
Recital Y a (new)
Ya. whereas according to the World Health Organization (WHO), between four and six per cent of older people have experienced some form of abuse in their own homes, ranging from physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, to financial exploitation, neglect, and abandonment
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Y b (new)
Recital Y b (new)
Yb. whereas dementia is more common in people over 65 years, it affects about one person in 20 over 65, one in five over 80, and one in three over 90 years, whereas generally, prevalence is higher among old women than among old men
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that climate change affects health directly through e.g. changing weather patterns (more intense and frequent extreme events) and indirectly through changes in water, air, food quality and quantity, ecosystems, agriculture, livelihoods and infrastructure, calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to increase all its efforts to stop climate change and to move towards an healthier and ecological transformation of society
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to publish a study on the impact of the financial and economic crisis on older women, in particular with regard to their access to preventive and curative healthcare
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes with concern EU research results published in April 2011 showing that some 28% of women aged 60 years or older have been mistreated in the last 12 month
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include the fight against all forms of elder abuse in all contexts in the work priority of the new rights and Justice Programme
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Calls on the Council, the Commission and the Member States to include elder abuse as a research topic in the Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Diseases to measure its prevalence and impact on people with dementia
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Endorses the WHO ‘'gender challenge’', implying as it does a need for better assessment of the risk factors affecting women's health; welcomes in this context recommendations by WHO to build "age- friendly" environments and increase opportunities for older women to contribute productively to society including intersectoral collaboration to identify and promote actions outside the health sector that can enhance health outcomes for women;