8 Amendments of Hiltrud BREYER related to 2008/2115(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Criticises the Commission for not taking gender mainstreaming adequately into account in its White Paper "Together for health: A Strategic Approach for the EU 2008-2013;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that gender mainstreaming helps to identify and to clarify the differences between women and men, boys and girls, and demonstrates how these differences affect health status, access to, and interaction with, the health care system;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Points out that patients’ gender is the crucial factor in how doctors/healthcare personnel understand symptoms, make diagnoses and provide treatment - even when women’s and men’s symptoms are exactly the same and no biomedical facts justify any discrepancy;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for a more prominent role to be given to the question of solidarity, which implies support for those women and men, girls and boys who suffer from a poor health condition or a handicap; calls on the Commission to propose further action on this in its health strategy;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Underlines the fact that health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the need to raise awareness about the environmental factors which influence women's and men's, girls' and boys' health, such as air pollution, dangerous chemicals and toxic pesticides; calls on the Commission and the Member States to take environmental factors better into account in their health and overall policy strategies so as to ensure a high level of health protection;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines the fact that there are vulnerable groups, such as pregnant and nursing women, children and adolescent girls, whose health is specifically at risk from hazardous environmental factors; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure a high level of protection of these vulnerable groups in their health and overall policy strategies;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines that the non- commercialisation of the human body and its parts as cited in Article 3 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is an integral principle in the area of health, especially for questions of cell, tissue and organ donation;