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EU legislation on health data a gift to Big Tech
WebIrene Schipper, David Ollivier de Leth and Jan Willem Goudriaan 20th February 2024. The European Health Data Space under negotiations will turn citizens’ medical data into profits for US technology corporations. As elsewhere, from the aggregation of big data from personal sources, Big Tech can extract big rents (Tero Vesalainen / …
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Global health governance from the grassroots
WebThe World Health Assembly met last week amid a slew of proposals—most recently from the United Nations Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response—to create stronger, enforceable global rules for tackling future infectious disease outbreaks. A new global pandemic treaty, more robust and independent international …
Healthcare depends on the health of social dialogue
WebWhile health and care workers were more likely to report receiving the support of colleagues and to display high engagement—indicative of their vigour, absorption in and dedication to their work—the sustainability of their work was questionable: half reported that their health and safety were at risk, and more than half reported exhaustion …
Artificial intelligence, healthcare and the pandemic
WebClearly AI has played a critical role in the initial detection of the pandemic. It has been used in tracking the spread of disease and hospital capacity, in identifying high-risk patients and in developing drugs and, potentially, a vaccine. Maybe the most visible public debate regarding AI in healthcare has been over ‘testing and tracing
From ‘crisis’ to ‘pandemic’: mental health in Europe
WebThese challenges, compounded by inadequate support and limited resources for mental health care, create an obstacle course for workers. The pandemic only served to magnify these risks, with in spring 2022 44 per cent of workers in the EU (plus Norway and Iceland) reporting heightened stress at work. In a survey across the Netherlands, …
Invisible women—creators, carers and mental health
WebAs the World Health Organization points out, the proportion of women who suffer from depression or anxiety is significantly higher: 70 per cent have mental-health problems, compared with 30 per cent of men.This is profoundly related to structural and gender factors. The psychological burden is greater for working women than working …
A person-centred approach to mental health
WebHence the key message of the report on mental health drafted for the sub-committee on public health of the European Parliament, which will be voted on by the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee today. Mental health should be a priority for everyone and any person at any point in their life can become susceptible to …
Wellbeing at work—it’s time to up the ante
WebOverly timid. Yet, so far, the European Commission has been overly timid on legislative change. The preparation of the Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2021-2027 brought a unique opportunity to lead the way, under the auspices of the European Pillar of Social Rights (‘healthy, safe and well-adapted work environment’). But …
A mental-health strategy for Europe
WebEurope must take care of the mental health of its citizens or, to put it another way, urgently strengthen the welfare state. Mental-health treatment involves a series of services, ranging from health and social care to employment, education and housing. The stronger the public investment, the greater our wellbeing and the better our physical
Why Inequality Is Bad For Health
WebInequality seems to worsen health outcomes, reduce life expectancy, boost rates of mental illness and obesity, and even increase the prevalence of HIV. Deep income inequality means that society is organized as a wealth-based hierarchy. Such a system confers economic as well as political power to those at the top and contributes to a sense …
Greater equality: our guide through Covid-19 to sustainable …
WebGreater equality has been shown to be a powerful asset, in increasing society’s flexibility and in reducing our vulnerability to Covid-19. The prize of sustainable wellbeing requires that populations of high-income countries abandon the goal of economic growth, which no longer improves the health or wellbeing of their populations, and turn
Reducing Inequality: An Essential Step For Development And …
WebReducing inequality is the most important step these countries can take to increase population well-being. In the developing and emerging economies, both greater equality and improvements in standards of living are needed for populations to flourish. A large and well-established body of evidence shows that very large income differences …
Stress at work: countering Europe’s new pandemic
WebStress at work: countering Europe’s new pandemic. Claes-Mikael Ståhl 3rd April 2023. Occupational stress has become endemic. It damages workers, their families, businesses and economies. As with almost half of all workers in Europe today, in Modern Times Charlie Chaplin’s character was subjected to severe time pressure or work overload.
Tackling staff shortages in health and social care
WebThe discontent has been sustained into this year, with health and care unions from Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Greece, Austria, Portugal, Belgium and Georgia all taking action. Indeed, the movement is expanding, with the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation recently sanctioning a campaign of industrial action to call …
‘Social media’: the harms to women and girls
WebThe research shows that internet usage, particularly on image-based ‘social media’ platforms, is associated with increased body-image and eating anxiety, and that adolescents appear particularly vulnerable. Because girls grow up in a (real) society in which women’s bodies are routinely sexualised and used by others to assess their value
Germany’s reliance on its healthcare ‘brown angels’
WebYet India too suffers from a shortage of health personnel. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a minimum of four nurses and midwives per 1,000 people but it e stimates that in 2019 India had little over half that—3.26 million in a population of 1.38 billion. Worse, a recent study estimates that only 1.4 million are employed in their …
Tackling inequality in the city—Cape Town
WebKey dimensions of inequality include its high levels of poverty and unemployment. Unemployment in Cape Town has been increasing, from 18.3 per cent in 2011 to 29 per cent in 2021 (the latter figure likely exacerbated by the pandemic). Poverty is also extremely high, although it declined slightly from 59.8 per cent living below the …
The Swedish face of inequality
WebSweden’s new face. Today, the Swedish face of inequality rests on a person whose everyday life is spent on what is in many ways a different planet. It is someone who no longer has to cook, wash the dishes or carry groceries—whose shirts are washed and ironed by paid (and tax-deductible) labour. The face of inequality is a person who can
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