Translation of "Mesure du facteur de réflectance diffuse " (French → English) :

The Programme should identify, disseminate and promote the uptake of evidence-based and good practices for cost-effective health promotion and disease prevention measures focused in particular on the key risk factors, such as tobacco use, drug use, harmful use of alcohol and unhealthy dietary habits, obesity and physical inactivity, as well as on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis.

Identifying diabetes as a public health challenge in Europe and encouraging networking and the exchange of information between Member States with a view to promoting best practices, to enhancing the co-ordination of health promotion and prevention policies and programmes for the whole population and high-risk groups and to reducing inequalities and optimising healthcare resources; Facilitating and supporting European diabetes research in basic and clinical science and ensuring the wide dissemination of the results of this research across Europe; Examining and strengthening the comparability of diabetes epidemiological evidence by considering the establishment of standardised outputs for monitoring, surveillance and reporting of diabetes mortality, morbidity ...[+++] and risk factor data across Member States; Reporting on Member States' actions in order to emphasise health determinants, promote healthy lifestyles, national diabetes plans and prevention measures, on the basis of information provided by Member States, assessing the extent to which the proposed measures are working effectively, and considering the need for further action; Continuing the work on the development of a comprehensive approach to health determinants at European level, including a coherent and comprehensive nutrition and physical activity policy, and addressing the impact on public health of the promotion, marketing and presentation, in particular to children, of energy dense foods and sugar-sweetened drinks; Building on the work of the EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health and encouraging the development and implementation of national diabetes prevention programmes and measures; Taking the health determinants and risk factors of diabetes into account across EU policies.

Licensing is important for economic development and consumer welfare as it helps disseminate innovations and allows companies to integrate and use complementary technologies and capabilities.

With regard to innovation and its financing, the Ministers restated the importance they attached to the promotion of innovation as contributing to a sustainable increase in the growth potential of the European economies, commented in particular on the various measures in the financial sector that could help the Union to make up ground in the spread of new technologies and the promotion of electronic commerce.

1'. epidemiological surveillance`: the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation and dissemination of health data, including epidemiological studies, concerning the categories of communicable diseases set out in the Annex, in particular relating to the pattern of spread of such diseases over time and space and analysis of the risk factors for contracting such diseases, for the purpose of enabling appropriate preventive measures and counter-measure ...[+++]s to be taken;

The aim of this forum is to make a full and exhaustive analysis of the measures which exist in the countries of Europe to help the creation of enterprises and support them in the start-up phase, in order to disseminate information and stimulate a debate on the factors behind the success of selected best practices and the possible transposition of these practices.