According to Barnardo’s, an international survey of children’s well-being reveals the eight-year-olds in England are less happy than those in Romania, Poland and Algeria. England ranks 13 out of 16 countries when it comes to children’s life satisfaction, with only South Korea, Nepal and Ethiopia faring worse. More than 17,000 children from 16 countries were […]
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The SUSTAIN project aims to improve integrated care for older people living at home with multiple health and social care needs. It will last four years and is divided into three interrelated phases (preparation, research implementation, and translation to products). A European multidisciplinary partnership has come together to improve established integrated care initiatives for this
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The governance of a health system shapes its ability to cope with both everyday challenges and new policies and problems. This book provides a robust framework to explain the ability of health systems to provide accessible, high-quality, sustainable health. Part 1 covers: • the five key aspects of transparency, accountability, participation, integrity and capacity; •
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The United Kingdom’s health systems have long made the quality of care a high priority, pioneering many tools and policies in this area. Yet despite being a global leader in monitoring and improvement, the United Kingdom does not consistently perform well on international quality benchmarks. This review from the OECD helps to explain why. To
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Vyteris Andriukaitis made the following points in a speech recently: The definition of health as proposed by the World Health Organization is: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Unfortunately for too long we have been focusing on care and cure, while
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The Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) has published its final Opinion on the safety of surgical meshes used in urogynaecological surgery. A key conclusion is that in assessing the risk associated with mesh application, it is important to consider the overall surface area of material used, the product design and
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The Commission is supporting EU countries at the forefront of the refugee crisis with grants from the EU Health Programme of over €5.5 million. This money will help address the common health challenges in the most affected Member States. A grant to the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) will be used for testing a personal
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The WHO has declared the Zika virus outbreak a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”. The European Commission has created a central web page with information on the Zika outbreak and how it is being managed in the EU. It will be regularly updated in line with the latest developments. To see more about the
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Quality Action is the EU co-funded ‘Joint Action on Improving Quality in HIV Prevention’ involving 45 partner organisations from 26 Member States. It promotes practical tools and materials to maximise the quality of HIV prevention projects and programmes. Five practical quality improvement tools are ready, and more than 80 practical applications of the tools have
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A recent paper from the Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House identifies priority areas for reform as the global health architecture confronts emerging challenges in the post-2015 era. Every country needs strong, resilient and equitable systems that enable all people to live healthy lives so the global health architecture needs to be rethought so it
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