Public health and medical care

The Government has commissioned the Public Health Agency of Sweden to carry out a population-based national survey study on sexual and reproductive health and rights. The purpose of the study is to improve the effectiveness of public health efforts in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Sweden has the ambition of being a global role model on climate and air quality and a leading country in work to realise the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement. In 2015 and in early 2016 the Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives worked in line with its mandate from the Government to develop proposals capable of strengthening Sweden’s work on climate and clean air. The seven political parties on the Committee, equivalent to almost 90 per cent of the votes in the Riksdag, are completely united behind the proposals for a climate policy framework and a Swedish clean air strategy.

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, list of issues in relation to the sixth periodic report of Sweden.

Since spring 2014, an Ebola outbreak has been ongoing in West Africa, where Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are particularly affected.