Over the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the proportion of European migrants in the social care workforce. In the first part of 2016 alone, over 80{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} of all migrant care workers who moved to England to take on a social care role were from Europe. Any restrictions to the migration of […]
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The European Parliament funds a number of pilot projects – projects which are experimental and designed to test the feasibility and usefulness of action. They are intended to develop evidence-based strategies to address a problem, identify good practices, and provide policy guidance for the benefit of possible future initiatives in the area of health inequalities.
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The WHO has produced an action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in the European Region, focusing on priority action areas and interventions for the next decade in order to reduce premature mortality, reduce the disease burden, improve the quality of life and make healthy life expectancy more equitable. The priority interventions,
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Monitoring the safety of medicines throughout their life cycle (pharmacovigilance) is the responsibility of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on behalf of Member States. The European Commission has published a report, accompanied by a detailed Staff Working document, describing the activities of the collaborative EU system for monitoring and controlling the safety of human medicines.
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Delivering on its Strategy to create a Digital Single Market, the European Commission has developed plans to help European industry, SMEs, researchers and public authorities make the most of new technologies. It has created a set of measures to support and link up national initiatives for the digitisation of industry and related services across all
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The European Commission has recently published a report on the prudent use of antimicrobial agents in human medicine based on questionnaires completed by EU and EEA member states in 2015. 20 out of the 29 countries providing information had a strategy to promote prudent use and contain antimicrobial resistance (AMR), 6 were in the process
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Fifty-nine UK-based researchers are to receive up to €1.5 million (£1.3m) each to set up their own research teams and pursue ground-breaking ideas under the EU’s European Research Council (ERC) latest round of starting grants. These grants come from the ‘excellent science’ pillar of Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme. The UK is
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It is estimated that 131 million people are infected with chlamydia, 78 million with gonorrhoea, and 5.6 million with syphilis every year. These are the three most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and the WHO has issued new guidelines for their treatment in response to the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. Chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis
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A summer school on pharmaceutical pricing – the first of its kind – helped train high-level civil servants in the WHO European Region responsible for shaping and implementing policies on pricing medicines. The Austrian Health Institute organized the five-day course, which ran from the 29th August to 2nd September, and 36 participants from 20 countries
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The European Core Health Indicators (ECHI) give a broad picture of the state of health and health care in the European Union. They are regularly updated and broken down by gender, age group or socio-economic status when relevant. They are grouped – into 5 main chapters: demographic and social-economic situation health status health determinants health
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