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Tackling secondhand tobacco smoke and e-cigarette emissions: exposure assessment, novel interventions, impact on lung diseases and economic burden in diverse European populations. The TackSHS Project. (TackSHS)
Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,
"Exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) has been classified as a "Group 1" carcinogen (known human carcinogen) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and has been shown to have adverse health effects on adults and children, including heart disease and respiratory disorders. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), the most common “electronic nicotine delivery system”, have irrupted i ...
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Participatory Urban Living for Sustainable Environments (PULSE)
Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,
PULSE (Participatory Urban Living for Sustainable Environments) will leverage diverse data sources and big data analytics to transform public health from a reactive to a predictive system, and from a system focused on surveillance to an inclusive and collaborative system supporting health equity. Working within five global cities, PULSE will harvest open city data, and data from health systems, ur ...
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Safety CaUsation, Benefits and Efficiency (SafetyCube)
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2018,
The objective of SafetyCube is to develop an innovative road safety Decision Support System (DSS) that will enable policy-makers and stakeholders to select and implement the most appropriate strategies, measures and cost-effective approaches to reduce casualties of all road user types and all severities.At the core of the project will be a novel and comprehensive analysis of accident causation fac ...
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Shaping EUROpean policies to promote HEALTH equitY (EURO-HEALTHY)
Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
Health inequities have been increasing in Europe, particularly in a context of an ageing society and economic crisis. In countries with different levels of infrastructures and health system preparedness, inequities create significant policy challenges.The main goal of this project is to advance knowledge of policies that have the highest potential to enhance health and health equity across Europea ...
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Jeunes, adultes de Méditerranée, tous engagés pour confronter, conforter, développer des compétences professionnelles, des connaissances culturelles gagent d’employabilité, pour devenir, encore davantage, citoyen et partenaire européens
Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,
The Regional Federation (FR) MFR is an association of 18 MFR training institutions forming young adults in alternation in the following fields: agriculture, environment, personal services, businesses and crafts. This association is managed by a Board of Directors (BO) whose 15 members come from departmental Federations (FD), which is composed of directors of MFR institutions. They are elected and ...
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Personalised Guidance Services for Optimising lifestyle in teen-agers through awareness, motivation and engagement (PEGASO)
Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,
Obesity and other lifestyle-related illness are among the top healthcare challenges in Europe. Obesity alone accounts for up to 7% of healthcare costs in the EU, as well as wider economy costs associated with lower productivity, lost output and premature death. Obesity in younger age is an alarming predictor for obesity in adulthood, but also entails short term health complications in juvenile age ...
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EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF STRUCTURAL POLICIES ON HEALTH INEQUALITIES AND THEIR SOCIAL DETERMINANTS AND FOSTERING CHANGE (SOPHIE)
Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,
The need to deal with health inequalities is now on the agenda of key supranational institutions, such as the European Commission (EC). To tackle the so-called “causes of the causes of health inequity”, the focus should be put on structural policies, policies that – especially in the current times of financial and employment crisis – influence patterns of social stratification, living and working ...
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