TAILIEUCHUNG - Health in the European Union

To monitor provider use of language services, health plans are requiring that providers follow plan-specific processes to obtain language services, such as calling an 800 number to receive telephonic interpretation. However, it is unclear how plans will monitor providers to determine if they are using these services when appropriate. Staff at one health plan indicated that enrollee grievance filings will be the plan’s primary method for monitoring compliance. Importance of Collaboration Between Stakeholders. Collaboration between stakeholders has been essential to this effort. Contacts involved in the regulations and/or designing language service programs specifically noted the importance of state agency efforts in. | iiiil EUROBAROMETER Health in the European Union Fieldwork October - November 2006 Publication September 2007 Report Special Eurobarometer 272e Wave - TNS Opinion Social This survey was requested by Directorate General SANCO and coordinated by Directorate General COMMUNICATION This document does not represent the point of view of the European Commission. The interpretations and opinions contained in it are solely those of the authors. Special EUROBAROMETER 272 HEALTH IN THE EUROPEAN UNION INTRODUCTION This report addresses several aspects of the health of European Citizens. As part of the European Commission s Health Strategy a Public Health Programme1 was adopted for the period 2003-2007. Amongst other objectives this aims to improve information and knowledge for the development of public health monitoring. This forms the background to the survey results presented here on Health in General of European citizens commissioned by the European Commission s Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General. This is not the first survey in recent years to deal with such issues and this report builds upon and offers comparison to reports published in 2006 and 20032. This survey was carried by TNS Opinion Social interviewing citizens in the 25 member States the 2 Accession countries and Croatia between the 6th of September and the 10th of October. The methodology used is that of Eurobarometer surveys as carried out by the Directorate General for Communication Unit for Public Opinion and Media Monitoring . A technical note on the manner in which interviews were conducted by the Institutes within the TNS Opinion Social network is appended as an annex to this report. This note indicates the interview methods and the confidence intervals. This report examines the following themes in turn The overall state of Europeans health and long-term illness The effects of some health problems on daily life The proportion of Europeans taking health preventive measures check-ups .

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• Feeding Influences
• Weight of Children
• Breastfeeding Reduce
• Childhood Obesity
• Waist Circumference
• Children and Adolescents
• Immunological and Molecular
• Renal Myofibroblasts
• Maternal Renal Dysfunction