Chronic Conditions

Date: 09-12-2010 - 09-12-2010

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Description:

2nd Workshop on Chronic Conditions – A European Strategy for Chronic Conditions

Chronic conditions are not just a health issue – they impact on the workplace, the home environment, social support services and family networks – yet governments for the most part have been slow to integrate policies, inter-departmental budgets and service provision to suit the needs of patients and providers and facilitate the input of community and private expertise.

Complex challenges call for innovative responses: the focus of this workshop will be to help formulate the principal elements of a holistic new model that can actively reduce the debilitating personal and economic burden of chronic conditions. The model will be developed by a Task Force, to be set up after the workshop and based on its outcomes, which can be adapted and implemented in all Member States.

Among the speakers:

• Jean-Jacques Cassiman, Head of the Center for Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Belgium,  and EPPOSI Secretary
• Wolfgang Grisold, UEMS
• Per Ake Zillen, FDI World Dental Federation
• Detlef Niese, Head of External Affairs in Global Development, Novartis Pharma AG
   

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