Translation of "Unité de soutien des soins de santé " (French → English) :

consider ways to better integrate, firstly, hospital care with wider health considerations, such as the environment and lifestyle, and, secondly, health and social care support, such as social work and care home services;

the provision of material aid, including assistance at the border, education, training, support services, health and psychological care;

the provision of material aid, including assistance at the border, education, training, support services, health and psychological care.

This project represents the EIB’s first support for healthcare investment in Ireland and the first dedicated backing for Primary Health Care anywhere in Europe by the EIB.

Specific activities shall include: understanding the determinants of health (including nutrition, physical activity and gender, and environmental, socio-economic, occupational and climate-related factors); improving health promotion and disease prevention; understanding disease and improving diagnosis and prognosis; developing effective prevention and screening programmes and improving the assessment of disease susceptibility; improving the surveillance of infectious diseases and preparedness for combating epidemics and emerging diseases; developing new and better preventive and therapeutic vaccines and drugs; using in-silico medicine for improving disease management and prediction; developing regenerative medicine and adapted treatm ...[+++]ents, and treating disease, including palliative medicine; transferring knowledge to clinical practice and scalable innovation actions; improving health information and better collection and use of health cohort and administrative data; standardised data analysis and techniques; active ageing, and independent and assisted living; individual awareness and empowerment for self-management of health; promotion of integrated care, including psychosocial aspects; improving scientific tools and methods to support policy making and regulatory needs; optimising the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare provision; and reducing health disparities and inequalities by evidence-based decision making and dissemination of best practice and by innovative technologies and approaches.

This relates to: (a) information for the European Innovation Partnership in the field of active and healthy ageing that will pilot innovative approaches to health and social care delivery for an ageing population; (b) responding to the Member States’ demand for support and advice on the sustainability of national health systems by investigating the cost-effectiveness of prevention measures and the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of health interventions; and (c) developing and promoting key indicators in health care and health care systems.