Healthy Europe article – Unhealthy profits

EuroHealthNet’s Director Caroline Costongs spoke in an article with Martin McKee and Nason Maani on how improved regulation is needed to reduce the risk from health-harming products in the market. The article, Unhealthy Profits, was published by Healthy Europe.

Summary of the article

An estimated 2.7 million deaths in the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) every year are attributed to only four commercial products: alcohol, tobacco, processed food and beverages, and fossil fuels. A recent report by the WHO Regional Office for Europe provides an overview of all important products that are detrimental to health and the widening social inequities caused by health-harming industries. The article talks to public health experts on measures that can and should be taken to reduce the harmful impacts of these four products, as well as the challenges faced to implement these measures from lobbying and marketing.

Read the full article here.