Limits and Potentials of the Public Health Programme

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This document summarises the presentations and discussion taking place at the workshop organised by Policy Department A of DG Internal Policies of the European Parliament on the limits and opportunities of the Third Public Health Programme, held at the European Parliament in Brussels in November 2017.

The aim of the workshop was to inform the Members of the ENVI Committee and all participants on the limits and potentials of the Public Health Programme, and to have an overview of the outcomes and impact the Third Health Programme had for EU institutions, Member States and individual organisations/projects in its first half (2014-2017).

Firstly, the institutional perspectives from DG SANTE and Chafea were presented. The results of the mid-term evaluation of the Programme were discussed, both emphasising the overall positive result of the evaluation and highlighting the areas of improvement and lessons learnt from the two previous health programmes. Next steps to overcome the current limits were also outlined.

Secondly, the focus was on the experience of Member States, which confirmed the value of the Programme for their National contexts, insisting, however, on the need to increase the available budget in order to achieve the targeted objectives. Finally, presentations were given by organisations and projects that have successfully utilised funds from the Health Programme

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, January 2018: Limits and Potentials of the Public Health Programme http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/614203/IPOL_STU(2017)614203_EN.pdf

European Commission: DG Health and Food Safety > Public health > Funding > Health Programme https://ec.europa.eu/health/funding/programme_en

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