5 general objectives :
1.To gather the health information available in Roma community in order to develop actions and recommendations to improve health policies and intervention strategies by disseminating results to health stakeholders and policy-makers.
2.To mobilise public administrations through awareness raising and train them to tackle health inequalities within the Roma community.
3.To identify the good practices and create a forum for their transfer among public and private European entities for the improvement of healthcare to Europe`s Roma population.
4.To train and transfer skills to Roma health agents/mediators in order to help Roma population to have access and use mainstream health services ; To train and transfer skills to health services professionals as regards to intervention strategies with the Roma community.
5.To promote synergies between public/ private sphere (health centres, hospitals, social organizations, networks, competent public administrations, Roma representatives, etc).
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The general objective of this proposal is the development of indicators to monitor the health status of migrants in Europe by using existing health related databases and surveys. Furthermore, a European network of epidemiological observatories on migrants’ health will be established. This network will generate a European overview of comparable and exchangeable data on socio-demographic and health profile of migrants for selected health problems. Specific attention will be paid to the conceptual, methodological, ethical and practical issue of identifying ethnic minorities in health databases and to the assessment of valid comparisons between migrant groups within countries and between countries.
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The project aims at improving the level of health protection for the people of Europe by addressing migrants’ and immigrants’ access, quality and appropriateness of health and social services as important wider determinants for health, focusing on healthcare services for undocumented migrants (UDMs) as an especially vulnerable group, an increasing public health risk and a group providing difficulties for healthcare providers and health policy.
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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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