Translation of "multi-professional cooperation in healthcare " (English → French) :

RECOGNISES that the challenges for the health systems such as population ageing associated with the rise of chronic diseases and multi-morbidity, rapid technology diffusion, shortages and uneven distribution of health professionals, increasing citizens' expectations and increasing cost of healthcare in the context of budgetary constraints due in particular to the economic crisis require the implementation of policies and measures a ...[+++]iming at increasing cost-effectiveness and improving cost-containment while ensuring sustainability of the healthcare systems, safety of patients and equitable access to high quality healthcare.

Step up the prevention, diagnosis, monitoring and control of healthcare-associated infections, also by adopting, implementing and monitoring professional guidelines at national level, where appropriate in close cooperation with the ECDC.

The results of this aid have included the emergence of major multi-annual "cooperation agreements" between professionals in Europe, such as the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation) project: this project, which is being supported for the period 2000 2002, is devoted to contemporary music and includes the creation of an original opera composed for the occasion by the Argentinian composer Mauricio Kagel, as well as a "Rising Stars" programme for young artists: each season, each member organisation of the network (11 concert halls in eight different Member States) selects a ...[+++]young soloist or ensemble who then has the opportunity to perform in some of Europe's best known concert halls and Carnegie Hall in New York.

Selected projects have had to comply with the following criteria: - present a European dimension both in terms of conception and importance as well as in terms of organisation and participation; - favour a multi-disciplinary approach related to the safeguarding of cultural heritage, by setting up cooperation activities between professionals with the objective to provide solution to cultural and technical problems linked with conservation, management and enhancement of the cultural heritage; - impro ...[+++]ve access to the heritage, as well as raising public awareness by implementing appropriate measures such as multi-lingual presentations, use of multi-media technologies, publications, exhibitions and other events.

Collection, registration, monitoring and reporting at national level of comprehensive diabetes epidemiological and economic data as well as data on the underlying factors; Development and implementation of framework plans, as appropriate, addressing diabetes and/or its determinants, of evidence-based disease prevention, screening and management founded on best practices and comprising an evaluation system with measurable targets to track health outcomes and cost-effectiveness, taking into account Member States’ organisation and delivery of their respective health services, ethical, legal, cultural and other relevant issues and available ...[+++] resources; Development of evidence-based, sustainable and cost-effective public awareness and primary prevention measures that are accessible and affordable to meet the needs of those most at risk of developing diabetes as well as the population as a whole; Development of affordable and accessible secondary prevention measures based on national evidence-based guidelines and aimed at detecting and preventing the development of diabetes complications; Adoption of a holistic, multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary management approach to people with diabetes including an emphasis on prevention, involving primary, secondary and community care, social services and education services; Further development of comprehensive diabetes training for healthcare professionals.

These visits were also the backdrop for a decade of ambitious Canadian bilateral initiatives with Russia: our strong dialogue on foreign policy issues and regular strategic stability talks since 1993; an intergovernmental economic commission founded by Prime Ministers Chrétien and Chernomyrdin in 1995; Canada's extensive program of technical cooperation organizing professional exchanges for reform; a multi-pronged dialogue on federalism and on the Arctic and the North; and, finally, on engagement by companies, departments and citizens on a widening array of fronts.