Activities of Marie PANAYOTOPOULOS-CASSIOTOU related to 2008/2115(INI)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph - 1 (new)
Paragraph - 1 (new)
-1. Stresses the fundamental importance of recognising the right of men and women to have a greater say on matters concerning their health and its care and the right of children to unconditional protection of their health, on the basis of the general principles of universality, equality and solidarity;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need to integrate public health issues into all EU policy areas and, including the use of impact assessment and evaluation tools, enhancing the profile, understanding and effective tackling of health issues at Community level through the adoption of a long-term approach, and to strengthen gender mainstreaming in public health policies;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas good health and a high level of health protection have a positive effect on safeguarding employment and on citizens' welfare and encouragecontribute towards higher productivity and better competitiveness at national and European level,
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission, proceeding from World Health Organisation recommendations, to present a report on the state of women’s and children’s health so as to enable measures to focus on various target groups and analyses to be brought to bear on the accessibility of services and their impact on different social groups in different regions, taking account of demographic changes and environmental factors;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is convinced that good health for the active population, the elderly and children can be secured on the basis of knowledge about health and by acquiring basic skills in health protection through lifelong learning;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital E
Recital E
Ε. whereas health care should be adapted to the changing needs and features of the EU population and that it should be based on the principles of prevention, health protection and good health promotion - both physchosomatical and mental - and on the fostering of healthy lifestyles from an early age,
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Draws the attention of the Commission and the Member States to Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which calls for legislative bodies to treat the interests of children as a primary consideration, one way being to make the necessary provision for maternity leave, taking into account in particular the effect that breastfeeding has on an infant’s mental and physical developmenthealth protection and access to health services during maternity;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas more attention should be paid in the EU's health strategy to long-term care using new technologies, the care of persons suffering from chronic diseases, and the provision of home-based health care for the elderly and for people with physical or mental disabilities and whereas, in this context, synergies between health services and social services should be sought,
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the EU's health strategy should foster enhanced cross-border cooperation among Member States, and between Member States and the Commission, in the health care sector at political, administrative, medical, educational, technical and scientific level aimed at, among other things, facilitating the right of patient mobility within the EU,
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to increase public awareness of reproductive and sexual health in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and reduce the social and health problems caused by infertilitythe rapid development of new, health-promoting technologies in order to reduce the social and health problems caused by infertility, achieve the strategic objective of prosperity and secure a viable future for Europe;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Agrees with the Commission in that the EU can provide added value in a series of cross-border aspects including the mobility of health-care professionals, cooperation between public and private bodies and the free movement of goods, services and patients;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Deplores the factIs convinced that risks associated with the health behaviour of pregnant women (high rates of induced and repeated abortions, smoking during pregnancy), mothers’ levels of health education, and infant mortality after the 28th day remain closely linked, that teenage pregnancies and deliveries continue to pose a greater risk to newborns’ health, and that medical conditions among newborns have become more frequent;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is of the opinion that gender-sensitive preventive measures, promoting health and treatment,which take account of documented scientific data, local and age disparities and promote health and treatment, and the use of information and communications technologies (ICT), access to services and the safety and health of workers help to lower the incidence of more serious diseases and mortality rates among women and improve their quality of life in the EU.
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is convinced that patients must be empoweredoffered more services and that, in this context, information strategies should be set up in order adequately to inform patients of their rights and obligations, including their right of free movement for health-care provision, thus allowing them increasingly to become active subjects rather than mere objects of health care;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. OpinionConsiders that health-care professionals' training should be adapted to the dynamics of health care and that this involves promoting lifelong learning among health- care professionals so that they benefit to the full from developments in the information and communications technology sector as well as the new medical, scientific and technological developments, and developing stable training structures to provide such lifelong learning with the possibility of recognition throughout Europe;