European Health Strategy
Name: European Health Strategy
Source: European Commission, DG Health
Date: February 2007
In late 2006 the European Commission sought views on proposals to develop an overarching EU Health Strategy. The strategy, to be adopted by the European Commission in summer 2007, will establish the framework for EU action on health for the next 10 years.
Cancer Research UK responded to this consultation, urging the Commission to develop the strategy with the long-term challenges facing disease prevention and cancer policy in mind. As the population ages and screening, diagnosis and treatment improve more people will get and live with cancer across Europe.
Our recommendations ranged from improving prevention messages to the public, supporting individuals and communities to make healthy choices more easily, to providing sufficient funding for long-term health information and education campaigns.
We also suggested that the Commission considers re-introducing previous EU initiatives in the area of cancer which have worked well such as the European Code Against Cancer and the Europe Against Cancer Programme (1987-2000).
For more information, please read our consultation response in full.
