The European Cohort Development Project
The European Cohort Development Project (ECDP) is a Design Study which will create the specification and business case for a European Research Infrastructure that will provide, over the next 25 years, comparative longitudinal survey data on child and young adult well-being. The infrastructure developed by ECDP will subsequently coordinate the first Europe wide cohort survey, named EuroCohort.
This will be achieved through the following three objectives:
• building support from key political policy makers with a brief which covers child well-being as well as national funding agencies tasked with infrastructural spending on science and survey data collection;
• developing a scientifically excellent research design;
• establishing a robust operational framework that will ensure the logistic integrity of EuroCohort.
The culmination of ECDP is in the creation of an infrastructural platform with a commitment from key stakeholders across Europe and from which the next stages in finalising EuroCohort can begin. There is at present no equivalent data source available to scientists to comparatively analyse the well-being of children as they grow up and therefore to develop policies to improve their well-being. As the respondents to EuroCohort grow up an increasing body of data will develop, becoming ever richer and informative, able to show the ways in which national policies have made impacts and showing where policy interventions can make significant improvements. The project started in January 2018 and will end June 2019.
For more information visit the Eurocohort website
WHO Europe: Mental Health, Human Rights and standards of care
New report reveals need for more humane, personalized approach in European Region’s long-term institutions for adults with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities.
WHO/Europe has released a new report entitled 'Mental health, human rights and standards of care'. It assesses the quality of institutional care for adults with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in the WHO European Region.
A total of 75 institutions across 24 countries in the Region and Kosovo (in accordance with United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 [1999) were assessed using the WHO QualityRights Toolkit. Out of all the quality ratings made, only 25% showed compliance with international standards, meaning that long-term institutional care in the Region has significant room for improvement.
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LaRge-scalE implementation of COmmunity based mental health care for people with seVere and Enduring mental ill health in EuRopE.
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3rd Annual EU Mental Health Compass Forum, Luxembourg
The third Annual EU Compass Forum on Mental Health and Well-being was held in Luxembourg on 8 and 9 February 2018. This event was aimed at diverse stakeholders such as policy makers and Member State representatives, non-governmental stakeholders from advocacy groups and care organisations, as well as mental health care providers, professionals, and service users.
The purpose of the Forum was to discuss the implementation of policy recommendations of the Joint Action European Framework for Action on Mental Health and Well-being and the outcomes of activities related to the work of the EU Compass during 2017-2018.
A Scientific Paper on Providing Community-Based Mental Health Services has been prepared by scientific experts in the field: Position Paper on Providing Community-Based Mental Health Services.
