The Pecs Agenda - Inclusive employment
This Agenda provide a practical response to the ‘health equals wealth’ challenge first set out at the European Health Policy Forum in October 2003. The Pecs Agenda puts forward a range of employment policy actions for localities, regions, and the European Commission. The Agenda has been shaped by the practical experiences, evidence and insights generated by regions from across the EU and beyond who are partners in Health ClusterNET. Importantly, it also reflects how partner regions are currently progressing in terms of economic performance and Lisbon Agenda orientation.
The aims of the Agenda
- To enable regional health systems to more positively engage with regional development through employment policies, planning and actions that maintain and improve a flexible, possibly intersectoral, attractive, inclusive and high quality workforce.
- To integrate the goal of inclusive employment into mainstream health sector employment policies in order to create more diverse and flexible workforces.
- To enable European regional health systems to have flexible options regarding approaches to employment that ensure health sector workforces are affordable and capable of allowing health care to adapt to changes in service priorities reflecting local health and well being needs.
- To create and maintain a health sector workforce that is a sustainable employment opportunity for an ageing workforce combined with recruiting and retaining previously marginalised social groups: long term unemployed, people on incapacity or welfare benefit, the homeless, people with learning disability, refugees.
- To learn from good practice private sector employers about how to improve the attraction of working life for all employee groups in the public health sector.