74. Recalls the urgent need for trained health workers in developing countries as well as the need to prevent the brain-drain of trained health professionals through financial incentives and training support; underlines the importance of integrated health services relating to HIV and SRHR, as well as of involving civil society, local authorities, communities, public health non-profit organisations and volunteers organisations at all levels when setting up health services; insists, in particular, on the need to facilitate access to SRHR-related healthcare in rural and remote areas;

Consequently, Member States should be able to set up different criteria for different regions or other relevant administrative levels for the organisation of healthcare, or indeed for different treatments, as long as the system is transparent and easily accessible and the criteria are made public in advance.

15. Considers the introduction of a legislative framework at Community level as the best way to ensure legal certainty for patients, national health-care systems and for private health-care providers; such a framework should ensure compliance with the fundamental principles of universality, solidarity, equal access, quality, safety and durability; it should also guarantee the Member States’ ability to preserve their system of authorisation, in compliance with Community law on price regulation and care planning, thereby enabling them to organise and finance their health-care systems;

21. Calls on the Member States to take targeted action to ensure that women in a disadvantaged environment have fair access to public health systems - in particular to primary health care (including the protection of mothers and children) as defined by the World Health Organisation - and also to gynaecological and obstetric health care, decent housing, justice, education, training, life-long learning, sport and culture, to prevent the premature abandonment of schooling and facilitate a smooth transition from school to the labour market, and calls on the Commission and Council to integrate the gender dimension in the annual r ...[+++]eports on social cohesion;

21. Calls on the Member States to take targeted action to ensure that women in a disadvantaged environment have fair access to public health systems - in particular to primary health care (including the protection of mothers and children) as defined by the World Health Organisation - and also to gynaecologic and obstetric health care, decent housing, justice, education, training, life-long learning, sport and culture, to prevent the premature abandonment of schooling and facilitate a smooth transition from school to the labour market, and calls on the Commission and Council to integrate the gender dimension in the annual r ...[+++]eports on social cohesion;

5. TAKING NOTE of the joint World Health Organisation/European Commission meeting on "Balancing mental health promotion and mental health care" held in Brussels from 22 to 24 April 1999, and its conclusions entitled "There is no health without mental health".