New study recommends to include the patient perspective into European health systems
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional office for Europe, published the book “Assessing chronic
disease management in European health systems – Concepts and approaches”. The publication suggests four main ways to tackle chronic diseases’ prevalence and burden in Europe:
- improving the quality of care and health outcomes for people with complex care needs;
- strengthening primary care and community services, and optimising their interface with secondary care
- making more efficient use of scarce resources, and reducing spending on health services;
- empowering people with chronic and long-term conditions to help define treatment and care modalities.
Empowered patients are capable of better managing their disease, therefore reducing the burden on their life and on the society more in general. At EFA, we have always advocated for empowering patients and we call on the European and national authorities to consult the evidence provided in this new publication and adopt policies to increase patient health literacy and self-management.
February has been an enriching month in the fight against chronic diseases prevalence and burden in Europe: two main events have been organised in The Hague and Brussels with the support of the European Commission and a book on “Assessing chronic disease management in European health systems” was published by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.
European is ageing resulting in an increase in chronic diseases: today 80% of the EU citizens over 65 lives with a chronic disease. This figure represent 77% of the burden of disease in Europe and is responsible for 86% of all deaths. EFA believes that active life as a patient is achievable, and we were delighted to attend and discuss how to improve the situation.
EU Workshop on chronic diseases and healthy ageing
On February 12-13 we attended the a workshop on chronic diseases and healthy ageing organised by the EU Executive Agency for Consumers, Health and Food Safety (CHAFEA) in The Hague. The event focused on 8 European Union Member States: the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Luxembourg and served to present the preliminary results of several EU funded projects in the field of health, including the Joint Action on Chronic Diseases. Prevention of chronic diseases, multimorbidity and polipharmacy, their economic burden and disease's management were the main focus points in the discussion. EFA was represented by Senior EU Policy Advisor Roberta Savli, but EFA members Longfonds and Asthma UK were also present. Final agenda, presentations and webstream of the workshop are available here.
CHRODIS Assembly
The annual general meeting and stakeholders' forum of the Joint Action on Chronic Disease (CHRODIS) was held in Brussels on February 19. During the meeting, participants discussed about how to tackle chronic diseases in Europe, capitalise best practices and work on prevention of the onset of the diseases. EFA was represented by Senior EU Policy Advisor Roberta Savli.
New study recommends to include the patient perspective into European health systems
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional office for Europe, published the book “Assessing chronic
disease management in European health systems – Concepts and approaches”. The publication suggests four main ways to tackle chronic diseases’ prevalence and burden in Europe:
- improving the quality of care and health outcomes for people with complex care needs;
- strengthening primary care and community services, and optimising their interface with secondary care
- making more efficient use of scarce resources, and reducing spending on health services;
- empowering people with chronic and long-term conditions to help define treatment and care modalities.
Empowered patients are capable of better managing their disease, therefore reducing the burden on their life and on the society more in general. At EFA, we have always advocated for empowering patients and we call on the European and national authorities to consult the evidence provided in this new publication and adopt policies to increase patient health literacy and self-management.
New study recommends to include the patient perspective into European health systems
The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional office for Europe, published the book “Assessing chronic
disease management in European health systems – Concepts and approaches”. The publication suggests four main ways to tackle chronic diseases’ prevalence and burden in Europe:
- improving the quality of care and health outcomes for people with complex care needs;
- strengthening primary care and community services, and optimising their interface with secondary care
- making more efficient use of scarce resources, and reducing spending on health services;
- empowering people with chronic and long-term conditions to help define treatment and care modalities.
Empowered patients are capable of better managing their disease, therefore reducing the burden on their life and on the society more in general. At EFA, we have always advocated for empowering patients and we call on the European and national authorities to consult the evidence provided in this new publication and adopt policies to increase patient health literacy and self-management.