Download or read book Assessment of Workforce Capacity and Training Needs for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases in the EU EEA written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarises the results and data of an ECDC survey assessing the workforce capacity, perceived training needs and the relevance of ECDC training in the field of communicable disease prevention and control. collected through ECDC's capacity and training needs assessment survey, 2021. The assessments are repeated every three years and target the European Union (EU) Member States and the European Economic Area (EEA) countries. Out of 30 countries invited to participate, ten responded to the Workforce Capacity Assessment Survey and twenty responded to the Training Needs Assessment Survey.

Download or read book Ensuring an Infectious Disease Workforce written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forum on Microbial Threats (previously named the Forum on Emerging Infections) was created in 1996 in response to a request from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The goal of the Forum is to provide structured opportunities for representatives from academia, industry, professional and interest groups, and government to examine and discuss scientific and policy issues that are of shared interest and that are specifically related to research and prevention, detection, and management of emerging infectious diseases. In accomplishing this task, the Forum provides the opportunity to foster the exchange of information and ideas, identify areas in need of greater attention, clarify policy issues by enhancing knowledge and identifying points of agreement, and inform decision makers about science and policy issues. The Forum seeks to illuminate issues rather than resolve them directly; hence, it does not provide advice or recommendations on any specific policy initiative pending before any agency or organization. Its strengths are the diversity of its membership and the contributions of individual members expressed throughout the activities of the Forum. Recent increased attention to both United States and international public health systems as well as the medical research and treatment infrastructure has revealed significant deficiencies in their capacity to respond to infectious diseases. Medical and public health professionals may be poorly equipped to detect, diagnose, and treat common infectious diseases as well as those diseases that pose an unexpected threat. The need for the development of domestic and international training programs in the expanding field of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases is well recognized. Well-trained infectious disease professionals form the basis of a strong national healthcare system. The Forum on Emerging Infections (now renamed the Forum on Microbial Threats) convened a 2-day workshop discussion-the subject of this summary-to examine the education and training needs to ensure an adequate infectious diseases workforce. The workshop reviewed trends in research training programs and discussed the requirements for establishing successful educational initiatives and training programs to ensure a competent and prepared workforce for current and future challenges in infectious diseases. Some key disciplines explored as case-study examinations included infectious disease epidemiology, vaccinology, vector biology, and public health laboratorians.

Download or read book Training Needs Assessment for EU EEA Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 2014, the Internal Audit Service (IAS) recommended that ECDC should 'tailor the training efforts to cover the existing capacity gap'. Specifically, the IAS expressed that ECDC should:  'Estimate, on the basis of a methodology agreed with the Member States and in collaboration with the National Focal Points for Training (NFP-T), the desirable number of specialists and their related skills and take stock of the currently existing resources in the area of disease prevention and control across Europe.' - 'Carry out, in collaboration with the national competent bodies, a comprehensive training needs analysis in the area of disease prevention and control, using a harmonised assessment approach.' - 'As a result, determine the capacity gap at Member State level at short, medium and long-term perspective and tailor further actions, in collaboration with national and regional competent authorities, to address the existing gap.' To fulfil the IAS recommendations, ECDC initiated a training needs assessment by conducting a Training Needs Assessment (TRNA) survey in 2015 and proposing the following action plan:  Action 1: ECDC plans, as far as possible, to use the results of the mandatory reporting from Member States to the Commission on the state of their preparedness under Decision 1082/2013/EU to assess how many specialists in the national workforce in each Member State comply with the EU-competencies for epidemiologists and that are able to fulfil the tasks related to their needs. - Action 2: As this will not cover all the assessment needs, ECDC will in addition rely on the National Focal Points for Training (NFP-Ts) to supply complementary information. - Action 3: ECDC will discuss the results of the survey with NFP-Ts and produce a training roadmap to meet the training needs in epidemiology; a similar analysis will be conducted for other related disciplines in a structured set of dialogues.  Action 4: In coordination with NFP-Ts and the ECDC Advisory Forum (AF), ECDC will conclude the gap analysis and finalise the related roadmap (id est add training activities aimed at closing the gap). This summary report presents the results of this action plan and is divided into two main parts: - Part 1 maps information on expressed public health training needs and identifies the most appropriate methodology for an EU/EEA-wide training needs assessment to complement the data. - Part 2 presents the results of the TRNA survey 2015. A detailed action plan with concrete activities and timeline can be found in Annex 1.

Download or read book ECDC Strategic Multi annual Programme 2007 2013 written by European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: INtroduction - The communicable disease challenges to the European Union 2007-20013 - ECDC's role in 2007-2013 - ECDS targets and strategies - ECDS governance, management, organisations and resources - Monitoring and evaluation - Conclusion - Annexes.

Download or read book A Literature Review of Training Needs Assessment TRNA Methodology written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) conducted a literature review to guide its proposal of a methodology for assessing training needs in the European Union (EU) Member States and European Economic Area (EEA) countries. The scope of the ECDC Training Needs Assessment (TRNA) largely focuses on training needs, and countries' capacities to train in the domain of communicable disease prevention and control, using a 'harmonised assessment approach'.i The goal is also to provide some insight into the enumeration and characterisation of the epidemiological workforce in the countries. The TRNA is intended to serve as a gap analysis, in order to inform decision making in the area of public health training at ECDC.

Download or read book Assessing Communicable Disease Control and Prevention in EU Enlargement Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECDC has been working with EU Candidate Countries since 2006 and with EU Potential Candidate Countries since 2009 to prepare them for participation in ECDC activities. Work with these countries has been mainly financed by a Contribution Agreement between the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) and ECDC under the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA). Enlargement countries are required to adopt and implement the EU acquis. Strengthening their administrative, institutional, and prevention and control capacities with regard to communicable diseases is part of this process and falls within the remits of ECDC. A country that wishes to join the EU, submits an application for EU membership to the European Council, which asks the European Commission to assess the applicant's ability to meet the necessary EU requirements and a core set of accession criteria.^It is important that an enlargement country makes EU law part of its own national legislation. It is equally important that the country develops appropriate administrative and institutional structures to implement and enforce this legislation. The Commission evaluates the progress made by enlargement countries at regular intervals. To evaluate progress in the area of communicable diseases, the European Commission's Directorate-General Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) has requested ECDC to develop methodologies and tools for assessing the capacity development, surveillance, preparedness and response, and health governance in this domain for all EU enlargement countries (EU Candidate Countries and Potential Candidates). Following this request, ECDC developed and tested a set of tools which now constitute a complete assessment package (see Annexes).^DG SANTE uses ECDC's assessment of a (Potential) Candidate Country's capacity in the area of communicable diseases to contribute to the annual EU enlargement progress report. Based on the results of their evaluations and assessments, ECDC and DG SANTE will provide guidance to the enlargement countries on how to strengthen communicable disease prevention and control systems and how to ensure the systems' sustainability.

Download or read book Assessment of Infection Control Hospital Hygiene Capacity and Training Needs in the European Union written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections requires coordinated efforts at all levels of healthcare organisations. The 'Council recommendation 2009/C of 9 June 2009 on patient safety, including the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections' and the European Commission's related implementation reports, stressed the need for fostering education and improving the training of healthcare personnel at all levels, ensuring adequate numbers of trained infection control and hospital hygiene (IC/HH) staff. Understanding the current trends in Europe in IC/HH training for healthcare workers (HCWs) is an essential pre-requisite for the definition and implementation of policies and programmes aimed at increasing and harmonising capacity and training in IC/HH all over Europe. The 'Improving Patient Safety in Europe' (IPSE) project (2006) and the ECDCcommissioned project 'Training in Infection Control in Europe' (TRICE) (2010) conducted surveys of the status of IC/HH training in Europe and developed a document called 'Core competencies for IC/HH professionals in the European Union' In 2012, ECDC launched the 'Training in Infection Control in Europe - Implementation Strategy' (TRICE-IS) project, which included a third survey to assess IC/HH training capacity in Europe. This technical report describes the results of the 2014 survey on the evolution of the IC/HH capacity and training in Europe, comparing 2014 data with those from the two previous surveys conducted in 2006 (IPSE) and 2010 (TRICE).

Download or read book Gaining Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Challenges -- potential for health gain -- Guiding principles -- Strategic approach -- Framework for action -- Taking action -- The way forward - taking the next steps -- References -- Annex 1, Annex 2.

Download or read book Public Health Stakeholders Perceived Status of Health Communication Activities for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases Across the EU and EEA EFTA Countries written by European Union. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Epidemiological Report on Communicable Diseases in Europe 2009 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition of the Annual Epidemiological Report on Communicable Diseases in Europe provides a comprehensive summary of surveillance data in 2007 and the threats monitored in 2008.The data presented show that the major threats to the health of European citizens from infectious diseases have not changed substantially since ECDC began its work in 2005.This year, the Annual Report gives special attention to vaccine-preventable diseases and immunisation programmes in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries.Possible target readership: public health officials, policymakers, experts in disease surveillance, experts in threat monitoring.

Download or read book Keeping Europe Healthy written by European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Workshop on Training Capacity Resources and Needs Assessment for the EU Candidate Countries and Potential Candidates written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECDC organised this workshop to map training resources and identify needs in the area of communicable disease surveillance and control in EU candidate countries and potential candidates. Outcomes for participants included identifying priorities and drawing up country specific action plans, and for ECDC more clarity in work priorities for the EU enlargement countries. Future steps include introductory courses on applied epidemiology and country visits.

Download or read book A Literature Review on Health Communication Campaign Evaluation with Regard to the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review collates and summarises the literature on communication campaign evaluation with relevance to the prevention and control of communicable diseases. The purpose of this review is to contribute to the evidence base on health communication evaluation research in order to aid public health professionals and researchers in the development of future evaluation strategies. The review is divided into two sections. In the first section the focus is on reviewing evaluations of campaigns undertaken in European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries, however, examples from the wider European region are also included. The second section, addressing challenges posed by campaign evaluation, draws on broader international literature pertaining to the identification of health communication campaign evaluation tools, frameworks and models. It would appear that there has been very few high quality European evaluation studies carried out in the last decade in relation to communicable disease prevention campaigns. Nevertheless, it is evident in reviewing the literature that there are valuable existing frameworks and guidelines that can help guide and inform evaluation research development.

Download or read book Annual Epidemiological Report on Communicable Diseases in Europe 2010 written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the analysis of data reported for 2008 by the 27 EU Member States and three EEA/EFTA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The main aim of this report is to provide some indication, based on the available data, of where the main burden of communicable diseases now lies in the European Union. In these areas, more concerted action is required in order to decrease the present and potential future burden on society, on public health and healthcare systems, and to reduce human suffering. These data contribute to ECDC's task of providing the evidence-base for action, to help identify and share practices, and to suggest methods for follow-up of interventions. Although there has been much progress in improving the quality and comparability of the data, the reader is still cautioned against making direct comparisons of the notification rates between countries. Surveillance systems differ widely, and the relationship between reported or notified and actual incidence varies from country to country for many diseases. For the first time the annual Analysis of Threats monitored in the EU is being reported separately. Possible readership: Public health officials, health professionals, policy makers, surveillance experts.

Download or read book Summary of Key Publications written by European Union. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (Stockholm) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book EU Laboratory Capability Monitoring System EULabCap written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECDC aims to foster and reinforce the public health microbiology system to provide timely and reliable information for infectious threat detection, the assessment of such threats, and their surveillance at the Member State and European Union levels, thereby ensuring the effective prevention and early control of infectious diseases. To ascertain how well this is delivered, ECDC developed, in close collaboration with national microbiology focal points from all European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries and the ECDC Advisory Forum, the European Union Laboratory Capability (EULabCap) monitoring programme. The EULabCap bi-annual surveys assess key public health microbiology service capabilities and capacities for EU surveillance and epidemic preparedness. The monitoring results help policymakers at all levels identify possible areas for action and evaluate the functional impact of capacity-strengthening activities and health system reforms. This fifth consecutive EULabCap report presents EU/EEA laboratory capabilities and capacities in 2018 and the trends of previous survey results over the period 2013-2018.

Download or read book Assessing the Burden of Key Infectious Diseases Affecting Migrant Populations in the EU written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: