16 May 2000: Communication on the Health Strategy of the European Community (COM (2000) 285 FINAL
This Communication sets out the Community’s broad health strategy, taking into account of the Commission’s communication of April 1998 and the Amsterdam Treaty objectives. A key element of this is a new public health framework, the ?Programme of Community Action in the Field of Public Health 2001-2006?, which focuses on three priorities: Improving health information and knowledge; Responding rapidly to health threats; and Addressing health determinants, in other words the underlying factors which affect people’s health. This will be achieved by focussing on key lifestyle factors, among which the consumption of alcohol.
