Following the Cross-border Healthcare Directive, patients have the right to to access health services in another EU/EEA country and to enjoy assumption of costs by their home country. This is discussed inRead More…
An overview on physical activity related to health
The JRC has recently published an overview on physical activity related to health in the European Commission’s Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Knowledge Gateway. Almost half of the Europeans (46%) declare theyRead More…
The European Commission publishes a report on tools to assess the efficiency of health care services
A consensus is emerging among researchers that up to 20% of current expenditure in modern health care systems can be categorised as either ineffective or wasteful. European governments seek to exploit opportunitiesRead More…
European Public Health Week (13-17 May 2019)
The European Public Health Association organises the first European Public Health Week. More than 100 events and activities in at least 30 countries, with each day dedicated to an important public healthRead More…
Discussing the outcomes of EFFICHRONIC at Erasmus Medical Center
The member of the consortium attended the first annual face-to-face meeting in Rotterdam to discuss the main achievements during the implementation of the intervention programme. The evaluation framework of the recruitment strategiesRead More…
Do you exercise enough?
According to data from Eurostat, around 28 % of the European Union (EU) population aged 16 or over did not do any exercise outside working time in 2017. in contrast with theRead More…
One researcher for the project EFFICHRONIC
FUNDING PROGRAM: Executive Agency for Health and Consumers of the European Union, in the framework of the Health Program (2014-2020) (Ref. 738127). NUMBER OF OPEN POSITIONS: 1 JOB DESCRIPTION: To carry outRead More…
Do you eat veg and fruit every day?
In 2017, around 1 in 4 people (27 %) ate fruit at least twice a day, according to a survey of the European Union (EU) population. A further 37 % of theRead More…
The EFFICHRONIC team at the ICIC19
The participants of EFFICHRONIC attended the 19th International Conference on Integrated Care (ICIC). They organized a workshop to show the multidimensional analysis used to identify the groups / vulnerable individuals in theRead More…
First training session of EFFICHRONIC at a correctional facility in Asturias
On March 20, CSPA started the 1st workshop of EFFICHRONIC for women in module 10 of the Correctional Facility Villabona in Asturias. Although we know of experiences in other countries that haveRead More…