Possible areas include the health sector (personalised medicine), integrated management of transportation and logistics for entire regions, the management of food chains by tracking food items from farm to fork, etc.;

It also has an impact on economic sectors such as banking, automotive, logistics, retail, health, energy or transport that rely on connectivity to enhance productivity, for instance, through cloud computing, connected objects and integrated service provision.

This joint action will support Member States in (a) improving their mental health services and strengthening promotion and prevention; (b) fostering partnerships between the health sector and other sectors to promote mental health and well-being; (c) preventing mental disorders and providing support to people with mental disorders; (d) managing the transition from institutional care services to community based care models; (e) promoting the social inclusion of people with mental health problems and tackling their discrimination and stigmatisation; and (f) developing mental health indicators.

UNDERLINES the leading role of Ministers of Health in developing and pursuing effective, health policy-driven approaches in order to adequately address macroeconomic, health and societal challenges including those related to ageing population, and ensure future long-term health sector strategies, with particular emphasis on health sector investment and human resource strategies;

building innovative partnerships between the health and other relevant sectors (e.g. social, education, employment) to analyse policy impact on mental health, to address mental health problems of vulnerable groups and the links between poverty and mental health problems, to address suicide prevention, to promote mental health and well-being and to prevent mental health disorders in different settings, such as workplaces and educational settings,

Moreover, ethical recruitment should be considered for sectors particularly vulnerable to brain drain: for example, the global crisis in human resources for health, with severe health worker shortages in parts of Africa in particular, which are compounded by the brain drain, requires a comprehensive and coherent approach to ethical recruitment of health workers[12].