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Activities of Julie GIRLING related to 2016/2096(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on promoting gender equality in mental health and clinical research PDF (501 KB) DOC (88 KB)
2016/11/22
Committee: FEMM
Dossiers: 2016/2096(INI)
Documents: PDF(501 KB) DOC(88 KB)

Amendments (33)

Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
– having regard to the World Health Organisation’s European Mental Health Action Plan1a, __________________ 1a http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf _file/0004/194107/63wd11e_MentalHealt h-3.pdf
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas maternal mortality is regarded as a major marker of health system performance;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas lack of access to sexual and reproductive rights, including safe and legal abortion services, endangers the life and health of women and girls, increases maternal mortality and morbidity, and leads to the denial of life- saving care and to an increased number of clandestine abortions;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas almost 9 out of 10 people suffering from mental health problems say they have been affected by stigma and discrimination, and more than 7 out of 10 report that stigma and discrimination reduces their quality of life;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas female migrants may face additionally face specific problems psychological trauma related to reproductive health such as complications with pregnancy and childbirthantenatal and postnatal depression, as well as a risk of exposure to (sexual) violence and abuse;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas women and men each suffer from certain forms of cancer such as breast, uterus and cervical cancers that are predominant among or exclusive to womenpredominantly linked to their reproductive organs;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas only 10 EU Member States have set the very much-needed target of screening 100 % of the female population for breast cancer, and whereas only eight countries have such a target for cervical cancer screening;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas the hormonal changes during perimenopause, and the time after menopause, may affect a woman’s emotional health and lead to mental health problems including depression and anxiety; whereas the hypersensitivity to the symptoms may hinder timely detection and the appropriate treatment;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
K. whereas endometriosis is an incurable disease affecting about 1 in 10 women and girls (i.e. roughly 180 million women worldwide and 15 million within the EU); whereas the illness frequently leads to infertility and often causes high levels of pain and mental health problems, thus making it very incapacitating for several aspects of work, private and social life;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas in Europe, men are almost 5 times more likely to commit suicide than women and suicide is the biggest cause of death for men under the age of 35; whereas men are 3 times more likely than women to become alcohol dependent and men are more likely to use (and die from) illegal drugs; whereas men are less likely to access psychological therapies than women;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
O. whereas male violence against women and its impacts on women’s physical and mental health constitute a fundamental barrier to the achievement of gender equality and women’s full enjoyment of their human rights;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to take stock of the specific health needs of women and men and to ensure the integration of a gender perspective in all aspects of health policies, programmes and research from their development and design to impact assessment and budgeting;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) to support civil society and women’s organisations that promote women’s rights, including women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, and to work to ensure that women have a voice in European and national health policy issues;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) to incentivise programmes that address the specific needs of women concerning illnesses such as osteoporosis, musculoskeletal problems and central nervous system illnesses such as Alzheiduring and after menopause, particularly in relation to womern’s and/or dementia, including those that inform women about prevention methods andmental health and those that offer training to medical staff;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) to increase funding to foster research on the causes and possible treatments of endometriosis, as well as the drafting of clinical guidelines and the creation of reference centres; to promote information and awareness-raising campaigns on endometriosis, and to provide means for the training of specialised health professionals and for research initiatives;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. To address the disparity in access to mental health provisions for example, within the EU, Malta has 185 psychiatric beds per 100,000 people, Italy has 8 beds; there are 163 mental health nurses per 100,000 people in Finland, Greece has 3 mental health nurses per 100,000 people;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. To establish and implement a national suicide strategy; notes with concern that only 13 EU Member States are known to the World Health Organisation to have a national suicide strategy;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Recommends that healthcare for pregnant women begin as soon as possible in the first trimester of pregnancy, in order to make it possible to identify specific conditions that may require surveillance, to recognise social problems for which women may need help from social or mental health services and to inform women about pregnancy-related issues; stresses that psychological healthcare is just as important as physical healthcare and notes that between 10-15% of women in the EU who have just given birth suffer from postnatal depression;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that in the EU, 27% of the adult population, including both men and women, have experienced at least one episode of mental illness;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on Member States to ensure schools have the appropriate frameworks in place to identify and support those suffering from mental health problems; Notes that 70% of children and young people who experience a mental health problem have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that sexual and reproductive rights include universal open access to legal and safe abortion, reliable, safe and affordable contraception, and sexual education and information on sexual and reproductive health, free choice and consent; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights, adequate gender-sensitive information and reliable, safe and affordable contraception, and to provide access to legal and safe abortion within and beyond the European Union;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Considers it regrettable that sexual and reproductive rights are severely limited and/or subject to certain conditions in several EU Member States;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Is of the opinion that the increasing number of medical professionals who refuse to perform abortions in Member States represents another threat to the health and rights of women;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to prevent, ban and prosecute forced sterilisation of women, a phenomenon that affects in particular women with disabilities and Roma women;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines the fact that screening procedures are considered to be one of the most effective cancer prevention measures;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States’ health authorities to recognise endometriosis as an incapacitating illness, which would allow the women affected to be treated free of charge, even in the case of costly treatments and/or surgery, and would allow for special sick leave from work during the most acute periods, avoiding stigmatisation in the work place;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to ensure full access to high-quality care for all migrant women, irrespective of their legal status, and, in the longer term, to adequately prepare their national health systems;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Is disappointed by the fact that the annual budgets for programmes designed to prevent male violence against women in all Member States is much less than the actual cost of such violence, be it in economic, social or moral in nature;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to prevent, ban and prosecute female genital mutilation and to provide specialised health services for women victims of FGMmental health support, in conjunction with physical care, to victims and those individuals likely to be targeted;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to take measures to ensure access to healthcare services – including women’s shelters – to all women, independent of their legal status, disability status, sexual orientation, race or ethnic origin, age or religion;deleted
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes with interest the UK’s Time to Change campaign that looks to directly target the stigma attached to mental health problems; urges Member States to raise awareness of mental health problems and ensure accessibility to mental health services;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Notes the wider economic impact of better addressing mental health needs; mental disorders account for 44% of social welfare benefits and disability pensions in Denmark, 43% in Finland and the UK and 37% in Romania;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that the participation of women of reproductive age in clinical trials is of ethical and social importance, provided there is adequate risk protection for unborn children, as well as the participation of women post- menopause in these trials, is of ethical and social importance;
2016/10/18
Committee: FEMM