16. Considers it important that partnership contracts and operational programmes should provide a comprehensive analysis of disparities in social and employment situations and the development needs of given areas, as well as integrated strategies involving relevant funds to address the specific regional and local needs of those geographical areas most affected by unemployment, poverty and insufficient health-care services or of target groups at highest risk of discrimination or social exclusion; points out that, in this context, special attention should be paid to marginalis ...[+++]ed communities;

the collection of market data, studies, analysis of labour market and skills needs, European and national cultural policies analysis and support for statistical surveys based on instruments and criteria specific to each sector and evaluations, including measurement of all aspects of the impact of the Programme.

Specific activities shall include: understanding the determinants of health (including nutrition, physical activity and gender, and environmental, socio-economic, occupational and climate-related factors); improving health promotion and disease prevention; understanding disease and improving diagnosis and prognosis; developing effective prevention and screening programmes and improving the assessment of disease susceptibility; improving the surveillance of infectious diseases and preparedness for combating epidemics and emerging d ...[+++]iseases; developing new and better preventive and therapeutic vaccines and drugs; using in-silico medicine for improving disease management and prediction; developing regenerative medicine and adapted treatments, and treating disease, including palliative medicine; transferring knowledge to clinical practice and scalable innovation actions; improving health information and better collection and use of health cohort and administrative data; standardised data analysis and techniques; active ageing, and independent and assisted living; individual awareness and empowerment for self-management of health; promotion of integrated care, including psychosocial aspects; improving scientific tools and methods to support policy making and regulatory needs; optimising the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare provision; and reducing health disparities and inequalities by evidence-based decision making and dissemination of best practice and by innovative technologies and approaches.

Collection and analysis of statistical and other relevant evidence, the statistical element of which will be developed using as appropriate the Community Statistical Programme.

(1b) More extensive monitoring, research and reporting by the Commission on an ongoing basis is needed to understand better the full scope ofoffshoring, including an analysis of the extent to which offshore competition is already affecting EU industries, adequate data collection programmes on trends in the quantity and sectoral composition of jobs that move offshore, a precise analysis of the economic costs of offshoring (including an assessment of the loss of tax revenue and the social expenditure necessary to support workers made re ...[+++]dundant), data on the redeployment of workers and of their new wage levels, and an analysis of the wider effects on communities.

For example: a research study on the identification of indicators of child vulnerability in order to make preventive intervention by educators, teachers, and parents more prompt and effective; research and transnational data collection producing a pilot study examining the problems of deliberate self-harm among young people in Europe; exposing the situation of unaccompanied migrant minors in the EU and focusing on asylum seeking or migrant children from three Member States; Muslim girls' negotiation between parents and social professionals; how to integrate different social services; how confidentiality is perceived and interpreted in cases of sexual abuse; the reviewing and refining of the first draft of an international manual for s ...[+++]taff of residential institutions to combat sexual abuse of young people; . an analysis of the prosecution of reported rape cases across Europe to identify key problem areas and a plan of action; a structural plan for a lesbian anti-violence programme at EU level; compilation of statistical data on sexual harassment in the workplace.