Translation of "Année de vie ajustée sur la qualité " (French → English) :

For example, later-life introduction of regular physical activity can extend years of life and years of independent living and can improve the quality of life of older people.

Over the past decades, the number of organs donated and transplantations carried out in the EU has risen steadily, with good results in terms of life years gained and improvements in quality of life.

Having said that, going back to my role as the critic, I do want to take on this notion again that less is more, because I spent a lot of years in the Ontario legislature listening to that very argument and watching the quality of life and services and programs in Ontario fall further and further and further.

The benefits to human health should include 2 000 life years saved every year as a result of improved air quality.

The second call for proposals in the food area, which closes on 5 February 2004, is designed to cover a number of additional critical issues including traceability of food (including GMOs in the context of coexistence); the creation of a food information database for Europe; gene-nutrient interactions and obesity; Nutritional and lifestyle habits of adolescents; the effects of early nutrition on long-term health; monitoring and preventing chemical contaminants in food products; using of plant biodiversity to reduce chemical use; environmental cancer risk and nutrition; improving the quality and safety of beef and of poultry.

1. NOTES with concern that childhood asthma is having an increasingly serious health, social and economic impact on the European Community, that childhood respiratory illness as the most common cause of morbidity in children in industrialised countries has serious economic consequences and serious effects on the quality of life of individuals and their families, and that the WHO World Health Report 2000 identified respiratory diseases as one of the five major burdens of disease (in disability-adjusted life years).