Health Action International’s mission is:
a. to promote rational and economic medicines policy, therapy and use ... […]
b. to support networks, countries, groups and individuals supporting the objectives described (above). … […]…, in the broadest sense.
(HAI Foundation Document (amended 2007), Article 2.1, pg1, 1988, Amsterdam) (See Annex III)
Goal: Health Action International (HAI) is working towards a world where all people, especially the poor and disadvantaged, are able to exercise their human right to health. HAI’s goal is to achieve universal and equitable access to affordable essential medicines of assured quality and that those medicines are used rationally throughout the world.
Vision: HAI and its global partners recognise that poverty and social injustice are the greatest barriers to health and sustainable development. Partners are working for just societies where people can participate equitably in all decision making that affects their health and well being, including the allocation of resources. HAI recognises that it is only when societies enjoy sustainable levels of good health that citizens can take a full and active part in development– for development to succeed, citizens need to enjoy sustainable and predictable health and well-being.

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The mission of EPHA is to pay a leading role by advocating for a healthier European society and greater participation of people in policy making at the European level.

The vision of EPHA is to achieve an equitable European society where all individuals enjoy good health and well-being regardless of their socio-economic status. European institutions that are accountable and accessible, policy-making that is transparent and with real opportunities for stakeholder input. Public health as a priority for all actors and addressed rigourously across all policy areas and legislation, and utilising proven public health models and evidence-based population health interventions.

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Extract from the Statutes of the European Health Management Association (also available at www.ehma.org).

“The aim of the Association shall be to improve health management and health policies through the development and exchange of both ideas and practices among academics, researchers, managers, clinicians, policy makers and consumers throughout Europe. The aim of the Association is met through pursuit of the following objectives:

2.1 The provision, development and improvement of education and training in health management.

2.2 The development and improvement of health management practice.

2.3 The encouragement and support of research and development among the members of the Association and the exchange of their findings.

2.4 The transfer of research findings into practice through publications and through collaborative activities amongst the membership, and particularly between researchers and managers.

2.5 Collaboration, on behalf of the members, with the European Union and its affiliates and agencies, the World Health Organisation and its agencies, and other international and national organisations which have an influence on health in Europe.”

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“The members of the ENWHP work together towards the vision ‘healthy employees in healthy organisations’. They are committed to the mission of developing and promoting good workplace health practice, which in turn contributes to a high level of health protection and sustainable economic and social development in Europe” (Article 1).
This vision is part of two broader visions at European policy level:
The EU Lisbon Agenda identifies the goal for this decade to develop the EU region ‚to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion‘. In this context workplace health promotion is part of the concept of quality in work with impacts on productivity, employment and social cohesion.

The second vision, although not on the same level on the EU agenda, is to develop a Europe of Health. European health policy supports the development of the national health care systems in the frame of established rules of subsidiarity, with a view to meeting the expectations of European citizens.

With its vision and mission, ENWHP contributes especially to the reduction of health inequalities, to the development of a European health information system and to improving important health determinants with impacts on all relevant settings in working and non-working life.

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Health Literacy Survey EU (HLS EU) helps to establish the issue of health literacy (HL) in Europe. This is achieved in two main ways:
- The project contributes to further develop and differentiate the concept of HL, looking at its manifestation in various European regions and cultures, and to demonstrate its overall social and political impact.
- The project will show ways of operationalising HL in various national contexts, implementing working structures and formulating policy impulses and strategies.

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