Last week some of the team were in Ghent for our half way point steering group meeting for Interreg 2Seas project DWELL. DWELL (Diabetes and WELLbeing) involves eight […]
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Vaccination saves between 1 and 3 million lives worldwide every year. According to the World Health Organisation, vaccines will save 25 million more lives in the coming decade. And yet several EU countries are facing unprecedented outbreaks of measles and a resurgence of other vaccine-preventable diseases due to insufficient vaccination coverage, and children and adults
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The 16th and 17th of May 2018 saw project partners meet in Lille for a steering group meetings; partners presented their progress and proposed solutions to potentiel problems. Transforming Integrated Care in the Community (TICC) will create systemic change in health & social care, providing services that are better suited to our ageing population by addressing
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The Commission is proposing measures to tackle disinformation online, including an EU-wide Code of Practice on Disinformation, support for an independent network of fact-checkers, and a series of actions to stimulate quality journalism and promote media literacy. The recent Facebook/Cambridge Analytica revelations demonstrated exactly how personal data can be exploited in electoral contexts, and are
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The European Commission has put forward a set of measures to increase the availability of data in the EU, building on previous initiatives to boost the free flow of non-personal data in the Digital Single Market. Data-driven innovation is a key enabler of market growth, job creation, particularly for SMEs and startups, and the development
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Identifying, disseminating and transferring best practices is a priority for the EU in order to support the progress towards health promotion and non-communicable disease prevention in Europe to reach the Sustainable Development Goal 3.4 and the nine UN/WHO global voluntary targets. This portal is a “one-stop shop” for consulting good and best practices collected in
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The evaluation of the EU legal frameworks on blood, tissues and cells found that the majority of the respondents consider that the legislation had made blood, tissues and cells safer in the EU. However, they also find that the legislation is not up-to-date with scientific, technological, epidemiological or societal developments and that the process of updating is not flexible
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The European Commission is proposing to limit workers’ exposure to five cancer-causing chemicals, in addition to the 21 substances that have already been limited or proposed to be limited. Estimates show that this proposal would improve working conditions for over 1,000,000 EU workers and prevent over 22,000 cases of work-related illness. The following five carcinogens
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Articles 15 and 16 of the Tobacco Products Directive provide for EU-wide systems of traceability and security features for tobacco products to address the issue of illicit trade. The traceability system aims to: Contribute to reducing the circulation of non-compliant tobacco products Reduce artificially cheap supplies of illegal tobacco products Protect public health, State budgets, and
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The European Cancer Information System provides the latest information on indicators that quantify cancer-burden across Europe. It permits the exploration of geographical patterns and temporal trends of incidence, mortality and survival data across Europe for the major cancer entities. The purpose of the web-application is to support research as well as public-health decision-making in the
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