Traduction de «Working Group on Long Term Care Classification System » (Anglais → Français) :

National Long-term Care Classification Reporting System

Working Group to Review Portability Issues relating to Palliative Care, Home Care and Institutional Long Term Care

7. Deplores the persistently high unemployment rates across most Member States, and is concerned by, in particular, the youth and long-term unemployment rates; stresses the need for increased investment alongside reform of national labour markets, and the importance of taking measures to boost the economy in order to increase job creation rates; as well as concentrate on creating quality workplaces; stresses in particular the need to improve national education systems and adapt ...[+++] them to the new skill and knowledge demands on the EU labour market, in particular by adapting the dual-track training model which has proved particularly valuable in combating youth unemployment and including entrepreneurship and skills in school curricula; highlights that this necessitates a specific approach and actions for some population groups, such as younger people, low-skilled unemployed, long-term unemployed, older unemployed and women, who still face constraints as regards their full participation in the labour market; stresses, however, the need to take care to ensure that such an approach does not merely amount in practice to reductions in labour rights and social protection, or to the promotion of precarious forms of employment; calls on the Commission to examine the systems of minimum income mechanisms for the unemployed in Member States;

(Return tabled) Question No. 447 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: — With regard to diagnosis, treatment, awareness and prevention, and research of eating disorders: (a) do the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Health Canada (HC) have any statistics about how many Canadians suffer from each of the following conditions, (i) anorexia nervosa, (ii) bulimia nervosa, (iii) binge eating disorder; (b) do the CIHR and HC have any statistics about the average costs of each of (i) anorexia nervosa, (ii) bulimia nervosa, (iii) binge eating disorder to the health system; (c) do the CIHR and HC have any statistics about how many Canadians (i) reco ...[+++]ver, (ii) relapse, (iii) die each year as a result of eating disorders; (d) do the CIHR and HC have any statistics about what treatment is available for eating disorders, broken down by province and territory, from (i) daily care to long-term residential care, (ii) how many publicly funded beds are available; (e) do the CIHR and HC have any statistics about how many Canadian psychiatrists specialize in eating disorders, and any statistics or information about what succession planning is in place to replace those who specialize in these disorders, broken down by province and territory; (f) do the CIHR and HC have any statistics about what eating disorders training programs are available for health professionals, and any statistics or information on what succession planning is in place to replace those who serve Canadians with eating disorders, broken down by province and territory; (g) do the CIHR and HC have any statistics about what long-term, publicly-funded residential care facilities are available, (i) the average wait time for treatment by such a facility, (ii) how many Canadians are forced to leave the country for treatment, (iii) the average cost to the family for out-of-country treatment, (iv) the cost to the health care system if the province or territory reimburses families for out-of-country treatment; (h) do the CIHR ...

The Centre reports that it is increasing its efforts to persuade national authorities to adopt compatible if not common systems for data collection, in particular by establishing working groups on long-term strategies for improving data collection and on the methodology for improving the comparability of data.

9. Believes that the crucial issues raised in the Communication require detailed consideration. Due to the wide diversity of health care and long-term care needs and systems across the European Union and in candidate countries, solutions should be defined at the earliest opportunity and be based both on studies and on proper political and economic debate. The whole problem of health care and long-term care for the elderly should also feature in any future C ...[+++]ommission work programme;