30. Underlines the responsibility of employers to foster the physical and mental health of workers; calls on undertakings to adopt company agreements that make company-level health promotion mandatory, in the form of a certified company health and safety management scheme in line with the quality criteria set by the European Network for Workplace Health Promotion;

CONSIDERS that health promotion and disease prevention are key factors for better health and RECOGNISES the importance of investing in health promotion and disease prevention in improving the health of the population.

12. Emphasises the importance of prevention and of affordable care for one's own health as the most effective courses of action in the fight against disease, and calls upon the Member States' governments to encourage the coordination of health prevention programmes aimed at different age groups which include health promotion and health education amongst their priorities and give prevention a perceptibly higher priority in the actual use of services, including regular preventive medical examinations and vaccination in accordance with scientific knowledge and to ensure universal access to these measures; also recommends appropriate geriat ...[+++]ric screening for frail older people with a view to improving their quality of life and avoiding unnecessary long-term hospitalisation and nursing home care, which will in turn make a huge contribution to cutting expenditure on health;

4. Points out that, in view of the constant increase in major diseases, prevention and health promotion must receive the same attention as treatment and rehabilitation, since curative medicine will be unable to deal with the growing burden of patients unless prevention and health promotion are expanded; considers that, in order to achieve financial sustainability, the enormous cost-cutting potential of preventive strategies must be fully explored as an altermative to simple cut-backs in Member States" health care services; calls for the expansion of preventive provision for schools, businesses and the general public, and for the introd ...[+++]uction of national prevention programmes for major diseases;

To address health determinants through health promotion and disease prevention measures, through support to and the development of broad interdisciplinary health promotion activities and disease prevention actions, such as immunisation campaigns, and specific risk reduction and elimination instruments, and by means of measures to achieve equity in health-related matters;

The EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020 , which recognises the beneficial impact of health promotion and disease prevention on both citizens and health systems and the importance of a healthy diet and physical activity promotion in reducing the risk of chronic conditions and non-communicable diseases and invites the Member States to continue to make healthy diet and physical activity promotion a top priority, thus contributing to better health and quality of life of EU citizens and the sustainability of the health systems, and the European Food and Nutrition Action Plan 2015-2020