Relations
with European Commission
European Commission Green Paper:"Promoting
healthy diets and physical activity: a European dimension for the
prevention of overweight, obesity and chronic"
Under the EUROCHIP umbrella, in Italy a "Task
Force for a National Plan of Dietary Prevention and against Sedentariety"
was organized. Italian Epidemiologists and researchers are working
to define a general plan for prevention for all chronic–degenerative
diseases where dietary prevention is considered a key action. This
plan looks with interest at the Mediterranean diet as a protective
dietary style.
The Task Force should not miss to coordinate with other similar
events on dietary prevention in Europe in order to help the creation
of a European strategy in the fight against Cancer and Chronic–degenerative
Pathologies. The European Public Health Projects EUROCISS, on Cardiovascular
diseases, and EUROCHIP, on Cancer, offer the expertise of their
members and their Networks to centralize the work related to the
proposal.
One of the activity performed by the Task Force is to provide a
homogeneous
reply to the green
paper prepared by the European Commission.
Cancer Registries
The EC Public Health programme is based on three
general objectives: health information, rapid reaction to health
threats and health promotion through addressing health determinants.
About the first objective, the purpose of the European Union Health
Information System is to provide quality, relevant and timely data,
information and knowledge in order to support public health decision-making
at European, national, sub-national and local level. Within each
geographical area, the Health Information System is a tool necessary
to make decisions at strategic, control and operational level, to
set directions, to monitor their implementation and to evaluate
their impact. The Community Public Health Programme aims to produce
comparable indicators on health and health-related behaviour of
the population (e.g. data on life styles and other health determinants);
on diseases (e.g. incidence and ways to monitor chronic, major and
rare diseases); and on health systems (e.g. indicators on access
to care for everyone, on quality of care provided, on health human
resources, and on financial viability of health care systems).
Population-based cancer registries are necessary
to reach the objectives of the European Union Health Information
System. Each European country has to facilitate the activity of
cancer registries both in terms of funding and in terms of availability
of cancer patient data (privacy law restrictions sometimes did not
allow a cancer registry to work).
EUROCHIP produced a document
aimed to underline to the Network of Competent Authorities the importance
of population-based cancer registries for the European Union Health
Information System and the main problems highlighted by them in
Eastern European countries.
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