Translation of "soins de santé intégrés " (French → English) :

consider innovative approaches and models of healthcare responding to challenges, and develop future long-term health sector strategies, with particular emphasis on effective investment in the health sector and in human resources with the aim of moving away from hospital-centred systems towards integrated care systems, enhancing equitable access to high quality care and reducing inequalities,

WELCOMES the Ministerial conference: Innovative Approaches for Chronic Illnesses in Public Health and Healthcare Systems, held in Brussels on 20 October 2010, which underlined the need to find innovative ways for cost-effective prevention of common risk factors, in order to create an environment that makes healthy choices easier for citizens, to take into account socio-economic inequalities in both health promotion and health care, to facilitate better coordination throughout the healthcare systems in order to ensure integrated patient-centred care and to stimulate integrated research into health promotion, primary prevention, secondary ...[+++]prevention (including early diagnosis), treatment and care of chronic diseases;

RECOGNISES that integrated models of care between primary, secondary and hospital care and among health and social care, along with the implementation of ICT innovations and eHealth solutions can improve resilience of health systems, while taking into account patient safety and high quality of healthcare;

Collect gender-specific data on health, and to break down and analyse statistics by gender; Take initiatives to enhance general and health professionals’ knowledge on the relationship between gender and health; Promote health and prevent disease taking into account where appropriate gender difference; Promote research into the different effects of medicines on women and men, and gender- specific health research; Encourage gender mainstreaming in healthcare; Examine and tackle health inequalities which may exist accordingly in order to reduce the health gap and ensure equality of treatment and access to care.

We agree on the need to achieve a more equitable distribution of its benefits, to fight against poverty and social exclusion and to focus on economic and social progress, the quality of employment, education and housing, and of integrated health services especially for the more needy sectors.

As a follow-up to the relevant Council Resolutions it is necessary to: - support the definition and implementation by partner countries of more equitable and sustainable health policies particularly with regard to gender issues and to reaching disadvantaged and geographically distant populations; ensure better integration within health policy of action in the field of reproductive health; - increase support to the reform of health care systems and to the further expansion of primary health care services including sexual and reproductive health care and services, preventive activities, in particular the prevention of epidemics, and rehabilitation; develop access to medicines including vaccination and their rational use, especially for ver ...[+++]y poor and marginalised people; promote staff training, a rational and efficient use of human and financial resources allocated to health and an efficient distribution of roles between the public and private sectors; - increase the effectiveness of investment in water, sanitation, and housing, particularly in urban areas; promote measures of primary prevention (e.g. safety at work, road security, reduction in air and water pollution) and access to sufficient food of good quality at household level ; - secure the integration of all health concerns into other development policies with special emphasis on the socio- economic impact of the spread of HIV/AIDS. d) Education and training Education and training is also a major priority of development aid and of coordination between the Community and Member States.