As every year, the European Patients 'Rights Day was celebrated by the local branches of the Tribunal for Patients' Rights in about 70 Italian cities. The European Charter of Patients' Rights has been distributed in different events (seminars, street meeting, open days of the local headquarters etc..). The Italian celebration has been realized also thanks to an unrestricted educational grant from Johnson & Johnson Medical.
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Cittadinanzattiva, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, has developed a project on improving access to pregnancy and maternity services by immigrant women in Italy. The project is inspired by the need to ensure that all women and their children have the same access to services during pregnancy and childbirth, regardless of ethnicity and social status and with equal dignity and safety.
Active Citizenship Network is glad to invite you to attend this important European event on “The role of citizens' organisations in the empowerment of patients with chronic diseases” on the 12-13 of May 2014, in Brussels. International experts will enrich this year the event, read the Programme
Basilicata is the Italian region with the highest incidence of diabetes: 7.8%. Followed at a short distance by the Calabria Region (7.6%). In Italy, the prevalence of what is one of the most common chronic degenerative diseases amounts to 5% of the population. While its direct costs account for 10-15% of the total health care spending. Equal to a per capita expenditure of €3,348 per patient per year. These are some of the figures released on the occasion of the presentation of the “Civic Recommendation on diabetes“, realized by Cittadinanzattiva in collaboration with FAND-Italian Diabetic Association, and with the active support of a table of experts.
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart rhythm disorder, affecting approximately 6 million individuals in Europe. The Global AF Patient Charter was designed to bring a worldwide, unified voice to improving the care and treatment of individuals living with atrial fibrillation (AF) and those at risk for AF-related stroke. The goal of Sign Against Stroke is to gather 1.7 million signatures in support of the Charter – one for each of the estimated number of people killed or disabled by AF strokes every year. — and provide those signatures to healthcare decision makers in countries across the world.
Active Citizenship Network is looking for Best Practices dealing with chronic pain, with an emphasis on policy initiatives aimed at increasing patient empowerment, awareness campaign for the benefit of citizenship, attention of various stakeholders. To these may be added also good practice in the clinical management of chronic pain and dedicated tools. The most significant will be published and showed in a European event celebrated during the EU Italian Presidency in the II half of 2014. The invitation to participate is addressed to both single associations of patients with chronic disease and chronic pain, and networks / umbrella Organisations. The deadline to participate is the 30th of July 2014.
The European Commission launched a consultation on mHealth or mobile health, asking for help in finding ways to enhance the health and wellbeing of Europeans with the use of mobile devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, patient monitoring devices and other wireless devices.
The European Commission has published for the first time a scoreboard on transport in the EU. It compares Member State performance in 22 transport-related categories and highlights for most of these categories the five top and bottom performers. The Netherlands and Germany top the scoreboard with high scores in 11 categories, followed by Sweden, the UK and Denmark.
Euproact, the website dedicated to European citizenship, is now online. The website serves
as a virtual place of reflection and analysis of the main issues related to the theme of European citizenship. Through the different sections, study materials as well as a database of more than 100 civic good practice, are available for download. The design and management of the site are undertaken by FONDACA, which carries more than ten years of study and research on the topic of active citizenship and European citizenship.