Traduction de «consultant en santé publique consultante en santé publique » (Français → Anglais) :

– (PT) Mr President, the current situation, with austerity policies that are, above all, anti-social policies, and cuts in public healthcare investment in particular, is clearly increasing problems in the area of health when, in the name of reducing the budgetary deficit, the cost of accessing public health services is increasing, the cost of medicines is increasing, even for chronic diseases, and support for the transportation of patients in areas where there is no public transport to treatment and ...[+++]consultations is being removed through the reduction of subsidies.

2. Where a Member State intends to adopt public health measures to combat a serious cross-border threat to health, it shall, before adopting those measures, inform and consult the other Member States and the Commission on the nature, purpose and scope of the measures, unless the need to protect public health is so urgent that the immediate adoption of the measures is necessary.

14. Calls on the Member States, in view of the rising costs of health care, to take reinforced measures - such as the use of new technologies, targeted information campaigns, efficient health service management, expansion of reference centres or cross-border cooperation - aimed at delivering high-quality health care for all now and in future and at the same time securing cost savings in the medium term; and urges the Member States and the Commission to issue guidelines after consulting industry and patient groups to provide equal access for all to medicines and medical products and furthermore to take into considera ...[+++]tion that health care costs could be reduced not only by government action, but also by greater solidarity between generations and in families and mutual assistance measures at local level;

As promised, at the time when the debate was taking place and upon the exclusion of health services from the Services Directive, we initiated action in a specific area of healthcare at European level; hence our initiative to begin with a consultation document, to start public consultation and then to continue with a more specific proposal.

(ii) information and consultation on health and health-related matters at the Community level, involving all stakeholders such as patients' organisations, health professionals, health care providers, trade unions, social partners and NGOs in the field of public health.

developing and using mechanisms for analysis, advice, reporting, information and consultation on health issues in accordance with best practice, in order to identify the most appropriate public health strategies;