Antimicrobial resistance

The One Health approach is essential to address modern global health challenges. It integrates human, animal, plant, and environmental health to prevent, predict, and combat threats like pandemics, zoonoses, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). With AMR estimated to claim millions of lives annually by 2050, the European Commission has implemented cross-policy strategies, including stringent EU veterinary regulations and targeted funding for national AMR action plans. Climate change further exacerbates health risks, highlighting the need for robust One Health frameworks. Collaborative efforts, including global partnerships and events like the European Public Health Conference, underscore the Commission’s commitment to sustainable, interconnected health solutions.

Read interactivelyKey messagesThe policy community, international and national, recognizes the significant health and economic impacts of antimicrobial...

Read interactivelyThis brief’s key messages are: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health challenge. It is driven by inappropriate...

Recent global and European Union (EU) policy actions on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are important to tackle the huge risks posed by antibiotic-resistant...

The key messages of this policy brief published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies are as follows:Antimicrobial and particularly...

The threat posed by anti-microbial resistant pathogens, especially in the context of health care associated infections, has taken on an increasingly pan-European...

With several other pressing policy areas dominating the agenda of the Netherlands Presidency of the European Union, health issues still feature as valuable...

The Slovak Republic, which will be is at the helm of the Council of the European Union until the end of the year, has embraced some key health priorities,...

Novel antibiotics are desperately needed to combat progressively resistant strains of bacteria, but there are too few innovative antibiotics in the clinical...

Antimicrobial resistance is an important societal issue. Making sure patients in the community get the right antibiotic at the right time is important...

Vaccination is one of the most effective measures to reduce antimicrobial resistance. As vaccines are highly specific to their targeted pathogens, they...

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major challenges of our time. Countries use national action plans as a mechanism to build engagement among stakeholders...

Health is a global issue and tackling many of the greatest health threats of our time requires concerted multilateral and cross-sectoral collaboration...

This Observatory policy brief summarizes some of the key policy avenues for tackling antimicrobial resistance (‎AMR)‎. Following the widely accepted...

Growing levels of obesity (‎‎including among children)‎‎, continued harmful consumption of alcohol and the growing threat of antimicrobial...

This online publication has been issued by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and is envisaged as an appendix to the analytical volume...

How are public health services in Europe organized and financed? With European health systems facing a plethora of challenges that can be addressed through...

Antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis that threatens public health and modern medicine. The discovery and development of novel antibiotic products...

High levels of pathogen resistance are rendering current antibiotics obsolete. Coupled with insufficient investment in discovering new treatments, multidrug-resistant...