Future of public health policy

The report by Mr Clive NEEDLE (PES, UK) on a Commission communication on the development of public health policy in the Community post-Amsterdam. Mr Needle is currently being groomed to become Parliament's "health supremo". A resolution adopted by the committee calls, inter alia, for the establishment of a Commissioner solely responsible for health matters at the head of a new Commission Directorate -General for Health. The committee believes that health considerations should be integrated with other EU policies through the use of health impact assessments and the identification of health priority areas.�