A delegation from the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) will be visiting ECDC on 1-2 September.
A group of international experts came together by a joint initiative by ECDC and CDC, to create a standardised international terminology to describe and classify resistant bacteria.
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), issued a report about the ECDC/JRC collaboration on the improvement of MedISys, a web-based tool for epidemic intelligence activities.
This indicator allows for construction of UNGASS indicator No 16: percentage of adults aged 15-49 who had sex with more than one sexual partner in the past 12 months.
During the Informal Meeting of Ministers of Health, 5-6th July, ECDC Director Marc Sprenger gives a speech presenting evidence of health inequalities in the EU, as well as several options for intervention.
This page includes indicators proposed for behavioural surveillance in Europe, providing definitions of each indicator and relevant references and web resources. Two groups of indicators are proposed: 1) Core Common Indicators that are to be used with all populations, and 2) Secondary and/or population-specific indicators.
European Union countries face the challenge of how to best allocate limited resources in healthcare protection and disease prevention to achieve maximum results. Measurement of the burden of diseases provides important evidence for health policy formulation.
Cysticercosis is the infection by the larval form of Taenia solium. The authors describe 9 cases of neurocysticercosis - diagnosed in Israeli travellers during a period of 15 years.