Number of chronic care management minutes

perform psychological interventions for patients with chronic illnesses | perform psychological interventions for persons with chronic diseases | provide psychological interventions to chronically ill people | provide psychological interventions to chronically ill persons

guest experience manager | guest relations manager | customer experience manager | guest relations officer

contact centre supervisor | customer service supervisor

health care

occupational bronchitis | industrial bronchitis

[EDTA] Chronic renal failure, aetiology uncertain

Homeless mental health care - Full day : day care

30. Draws the attention of the Commission to the increased number of workers affected by chronic illness in the workforce; takes the view that accessible and safe jobs should be available for people affected by terminal illnesses, chronic and long-term conditions and disability; urges the Member States to focus on retention and integration of people affected by chronic diseases as well as to support reasonable adaptation of workplaces, which will ensure a timely return to work; calls on the Commission to promote integration and rehabilitation measures for people with disabilities and to support Member States’ efforts by raising awaren ...[+++]ess and identifying and sharing good practices on accommodations and adjustments in the workplace; urges Eurofound to further examine and analyse the employment opportunities and the degree of employability of people with chronic diseases;

1. Welcomes the Commission communication on the eHealth Action Plan 2012-2020 (COM(2012)0736) and considers that it provides an important set of guidelines for national, regional and local institutions on how to make health systems sustainable while securing universal access to services and how to prepare healthcare systems in the EU for today’s challenges, which include population ageing, the exodus of young people from rural areas, the increasing incidence of chronic diseases, the need to provide suitable care for patients with some form of disability, the need to preserve a human dimension in healthcare, the growing difficulty of keep ...[+++]ing medical and social issues separate, the growing number of patients on the move, the growing demand for quality care and specialised services, the need for more efficient use of ever-scarcer resources and a reduction in red tape and corruption, and the need to create an accessible and stable market environment to encourage innovation, employment, social development and fairness;

6. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote a gendered approach to healthcare and medicine and, when implementing the e-Health Action Plan, to take into consideration the specific needs of women and girls as beneficiaries of healthcare; whereas, due to longer life expectancy and the gender sensitivity of certain diseases, women are affected to a greater extent by chronic and disabling diseases;

41. Acknowledges the Commission’s intention to contribute to making care and cure systems more cost-efficient; emphasises, however, that the continuous increase in overall healthcare and social support costs cannot be attributed to an ageing population alone; acknowledges that the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases play a substantial role in rising healthcare and social support costs, however, notes that where the burden of healthcare costs is increasingly borne by the individual this is likely to create a vicious circle whereby people’s health and wellbeing are put at risk as they might be compelled to reallocate their often li ...[+++]mited resources or when they have to postpone, abandon or even refrain from treatment, assistance and adequate nutrition, which in turn might lead to ever greater healthcare and social support costs both to the individual and to the society;