Chronic disease surveillance in Canada: a background paper

Chronic disease monitoring

chronic disease | long-term disease | long-term illness | protracted disease

chronic care

Canadian Communicable Disease Surveillance System : Disease-Specific Case Definitions and Surveillance Methods

Chronic dermatosis

· Launch the flagship initiative on "Ageing well in the information society", propose the Article 169 AAL initative and launch pilots under the CIP focusing on independent living and chronic disease monitoring.

– Finding and deploying innovative solutions, clinical tests, medicines and treatments, to combat and address age-related chronic diseases (such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's as well as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and other chronic diseases), whilst at the same time providing public support for research on less-frequent, rare or orphan age-related diseases (that do not attract sufficient attention from private research funding).

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;

3.2. Chronic diseases: support European cooperation and networking on preventing and improving the response to chronic diseases including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, operating within a gender-sensitive framework and taking into account the differences between disease processes in women and men, by sharing knowledge, good practice, promoting education, developing guidelines regarding the underlying environmental factors of chronic diseases and developing joint activities on prevention, including with regard to environmental risk factors; . follow-up work already undertaken; set up a European chronic disease information system with comparable data; ...[+++] support chronic disease screening and early diagnosis of chronic diseases, including voluntary accreditation mechanisms; support the development of European guidelines for prevention and early diagnosis where major inequalities exist.