Commission Communication - Solidarity in Health: Reducing Health Inequalities in the EU

The Communication sets out actions that the European Commission will take to help address health inequalities including:

• Collaboration with national authorities, regions and other bodies
• assessment of the impact of EU policies on health inequalities to ensure that they help reduce them where possible.
• regular statistics and reporting on the size of inequalities in the EU and on successful strategies to reduce them.
• better information on EU funding to help national authorities and other bodies address the inequalities.

Commmunication

• Communication from the Commission on Solidarity in health: Reducing health inequalities in the EU

Citizen's Summary

• Citizen's Summary

Background information

• Press release
• Background document
• Questions and answers
• Projects on health inequalities supported by the public health programme
• Projects on health inequalities supported by the 7th Research Framework programme

Impact Assessment

• Impact Assessment
• Summary of impact assessment

Video

• Extracts from the press conference by Androulla VASSILIOU, European Commissioner for Health and Vladimir SPIDLA, European Commissioner for Employment, social affairs and equal opportunities