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Gender-Specific Differences in Health Are Larger in the New EU Countries

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

-“EHLEIS” study indicates significant differences between the EU-15 and new member states

-Possible causes are behaviours of men which are hazardous to health

-“Healthy life years” increasingly replacing “life expectancy” as an indicator of health

Integrated Care Works If Incentive Systems Exist

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

-Integration alone hardly leads to improvements

-Quality and cost competition between service providers necessary

-Continued deficits in European countries

“Integrated healthcare” has become one of the key concepts for European health officials in the search for efficient solutions for their countries’ healthcare systems. The quality of medical services and cost efficiency is to be increased through the improved linking of health service providers, or resident practical physicians and specialists, hospitals, nurses, physiotherapists, etc.

Medtec Industry Sees Five Key Factors as a Way to Better Healthcare

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

-Experts demand more prevention, best-practice models, IT, medical technology and performance-based payment of providers

-Bureaucratic obstacles put brakes on innovations

Cutting costs with Medical Technology Innovations

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

-Scientific and technological breakthroughs lead to significantly higher efficiency

-Big saving potential through shorter hospital stays and physician working time

-Telemonitoring can become a trend in healthcare delivery

Association of key vaccines with judicious antibiotic use turns out to be an efficient strategy against antibiotic resistance

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

-Immunization programs with an effective pneumococcal conjugate vaccine show evidence of significant reduction in pneumococcal diseases

-Judicious use of antibiotics associated with key vaccines can control antibiotic resistance

EHFG 2009: Health Policy between Ethics and Finances

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

• Health policy must be oriented around people’s needs despite the crisis

• The economic crisis as catalyst for overdue reforms

The Hospital of the Future: Counting for Beds Was Yesterday

EHFG - European Health Forum Gastein

• Capacity must be oriented around treatment procedures

• Building costs nearly negligible compared to operating costs

• The “ten commandments” for future hospitals

Congestion Charging Will Not Solve Traffic Problems in Cities

FIA EUROPEAN BUREAU

The Eurocouncil of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) raises its concerns at the approach taken by the European Commission with regard to urban traffic congestion following the adoption of the Action Plan on Urban Mobility.

The IRU signed a MoU with DocStop to provide medical assistance to professional drivers.

IRU - International Road Transport Union

IRU partners with DocStop through TRANSPark

Brussels – A Memorandum of Understanding between the IRU and DocStop - a network of medical doctors who provide their services to drivers in need of non-critical medical assistance, in a 4km radius around main parking areas in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Poland, was signed yesterday by DocStop Chairman and Member of the European Parliament, Dr. Dieter Lebrecht-Koch, IRU President, Janusz Lacny and IRU Secretary General, Martin Marmy.

Green reform is turning sour

BirdLife International

CAP Health check implementation betrays the environment

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