As a follow-up to the extensive public consultation[29] on the basis of the Green Paper “Promoting the mental health of the population: Towards a strategy on mental health for the EU”[30] of October 2005, the Commission announced, at the meeting of the EPSCO Council in December 2007, the organisation of a high-level conference on mental health with the objective of establishing a European Pact for Mental Health.

3.2.2. Develop mechanisms for analysis and dissemination, including Community health reports, the Health Portal and conferences; provide information to citizens, stakeholders and policy makers, develop consultation mechanisms and participatory processes; establish regular reports on health status in the European Union based on all data and indicators and including a qualitative and quantitative analysis.

The Cairo conference term 'reproductive health' was defined by the World Health Organisation as including the term 'fertility regulation' which includes the term 'interrupting unwanted pregnancy', i.e. abortion.

WELCOMES the Ministerial conference: Innovative Approaches for Chronic Illnesses in Public Health and Healthcare Systems, held in Brussels on 20 October 2010, which underlined the need to find innovative ways for cost-effective prevention of common risk factors, in order to create an environment that makes healthy choices easier for citizens, to take into account socio-economic inequalities in both health promotion and health care, to facilitate better coordination throughout the healthcare systems in order to ensure integrated patient- ...[+++]centred care and to stimulate integrated research into health promotion, primary prevention, secondary prevention (including early diagnosis), treatment and care of chronic diseases;

(7) In its Resolution of 29 June 2000 on the follow-up to the Evora conference on health determinants, the Council considered that the increasing differences in health status and health outcomes between and within Member States called for renewed and coordinated efforts at national and Community level; welcomed the Commission's commitment to submit a proposal for a new public health programme containing a specific strand of action aimed at addressing health determinants by means of health promotion and disease prevention underpinned by intersectoral policy and agreed that there was a need to develop the appropriate knowledge base for th ...[+++]is and, therefore, that an efficacious health monitoring system should be established for this purpose; stressed the importance of the new Community public health strategy building upon the activities on specific determinants taken in the existing programmes, especially with respect to tobacco, nutrition and alcohol and that it was important not only to ensure continuity with existing actions, but also to take forward work on these issues in a fully coherent and systematic way.

Moreover, the significant share of the cost of care which comes from public funding gives this quality requirement a second dimension, namely how to achieve an optimum balance (which is acceptable without jeopardising the public health objective) between the health benefits and the cost of medication and treatment.