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Policy brief Belgian EBCP mirror group 'prevention' and 'early detection & screening' in cancer. 比利时 EBCP 癌症 "预防 "和 "早期检测与筛查 "镜像组政策简报。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01368-4
Cindy Simoens, Gabrielle Schittecatte
{"title":"Policy brief Belgian EBCP mirror group 'prevention' and 'early detection & screening' in cancer.","authors":"Cindy Simoens, Gabrielle Schittecatte","doi":"10.1186/s13690-024-01368-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13690-024-01368-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The availability and linkage of comprehensive data on cancer mortality, incidence, screening and vaccination (HPV/HB) are essential for monitoring the process and impact of all screening and vaccination programmes, and to generate evidence to improve prevention policies. Linkage of data registries will allow better exploitation of real-world data. Simplification of data sharing for epidemiological research is of utmost importance. Human, as well as technical/technological and legal/regulatory barriers need to be tackled in Belgium to aid actors involved in screening, to facilitate organised linkage of data. Rapid advances in technologies for early detection and screening for a broad range of cancer types provide significant opportunities. Such tests are not yet ready for adoption in screening programmes. Emerging evidence should be monitored to ensure that promising innovations can transition to implementation studies in a timely manner. More and sustained research is needed to generate the necessary scientific relevance for new screening techniques in relevant cancer types.</p>","PeriodicalId":48578,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Public Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11363375/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Policy Brief - Survivorship is cancer survivorship the poor cousin of cancer control within the EBCP? 政策简介--幸存者 癌症幸存者是 EBCP 癌症控制的 "穷亲戚 "吗?
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01371-9
Régine Kiasuwa Mbengi, Gabrielle Schittecatte, Sofie Theys
{"title":"Policy Brief - Survivorship is cancer survivorship the poor cousin of cancer control within the EBCP?","authors":"Régine Kiasuwa Mbengi, Gabrielle Schittecatte, Sofie Theys","doi":"10.1186/s13690-024-01371-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13690-024-01371-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is an increasing number of cancer survivors, including children, adolescents, young adults, individuals of working age, and the elderly, within the Belgian and European population. Yet, survivorship care and rehabilitation are often treated as an afterthought in care organisation. This not only directly affects the quality of life of survivors and carers, but also puts the sustainability of the healthcare and social security systems at risk.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analysed the ongoing Europe Beating Cancer Plan (EBCP) to identify the actions supporting survivorship (care) developments, then compared their weight in the EBCP to the other domains of cancer control. Following this analysis, and comparison with related ongoing projects, and current infrastructure in Belgium, several unmet needs were identified.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>To better address these unmet needs, we recommend that Belgium incorporates survivorship care and long-term follow-up in clinical guidelines and care pathways, and considers including indicators related to cancer survivorship in the planning and design of quality insurance schemes, including certification of comprehensive cancer centres. Furthermore, we suggest further investment and support for research and knowledge exchange in the field of survivorship.</p>","PeriodicalId":48578,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Public Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11360318/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Policy brief Belgian EBCP mirror group Artificial Intelligence in cancer care. 比利时 EBCP 镜像小组关于癌症护理中的人工智能的政策简报。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01367-5
Emilie Cauët, Gabrielle Schittecatte, Marc Van Den Bulcke
{"title":"Policy brief Belgian EBCP mirror group Artificial Intelligence in cancer care.","authors":"Emilie Cauët, Gabrielle Schittecatte, Marc Van Den Bulcke","doi":"10.1186/s13690-024-01367-5","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13690-024-01367-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already a reality in health systems, bringing benefits to patients, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders in the health care. To further leverage AI in health, Belgium is advised to make policy-level decisions about how to fund, design and undertake actions focussing on data access and inclusion, IT-infrastructure, legal and ethical frameworks, public and professional trust, in addition to education and interpretation. EU initiatives, such as European Health data space (EHDS), the Genomics Data Infrastructure (GDI) and the EU Cancer Imaging Infrastructure (EUCAIM) are building EU data infrastructures. To continue these positive developments, Belgium should continue to invest and support existing European data infrastructures. At the national level, a clear vision and strategy need to be developed and infrastructures need to be harmonized at the European level.</p>","PeriodicalId":48578,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Public Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11350927/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142093987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Policy brief of the Belgian Europe's Beating Cancer Plan mirror group: children, adolescents and young adults with cancer. 比利时欧洲抗癌计划镜像小组政策简介:儿童、青少年和年轻成人癌症患者。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01366-6
Hélène A Poirel, Gabrielle Schittecatte, Fabienne Van Aelst
{"title":"Policy brief of the Belgian Europe's Beating Cancer Plan mirror group: children, adolescents and young adults with cancer.","authors":"Hélène A Poirel, Gabrielle Schittecatte, Fabienne Van Aelst","doi":"10.1186/s13690-024-01366-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13690-024-01366-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children and Adolescents and Young Adults with cancer represent a young population with specific needs, which need to be addressed in a patient- and cancer-driven way. There is an urgent need to support and extend the ongoing initiatives in Belgium. First, multidisciplinary care programmes dedicated to children need to be reviewed, and those for Adolescents and Young Adults need to be developed with close collaboration between paediatric and adult oncology and haematology teams. This needs to be done considering the entire patient journey; from cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, follow-up of late effects, transition pathways between paediatric and adult wards, and palliative care. Second, national haemato/oncology precision programmes adapted to this young population with rare cancers, including infrastructure to manage cancer gene predisposition in CAYAs with cancers and their relatives, needs to be developed. This multi-level plan aims to ensure improved outcome with high quality of care for the young population with cancer in Belgium in line with Europe's Beating Cancer Plan initiatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":48578,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Public Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348532/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Beliefs negatively mediate adolescents' and adults' knowledge about sickle cell disease prevention and relationship choices; a one-center exploratory study in Central Region, Ghana. 信念对青少年和成年人有关镰状细胞病预防和关系选择的知识具有负面中介作用;在加纳中部地区开展的一项单中心探索性研究。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01379-1
Godfred Kiteinkwa Laar, Justine Mwinbeku, Ebenezer Allotey Pappoe, Emmanuella Obike, Elizabeth Ankomah, Belinda Baidoo, Diana Baaba Morrison, Joseph Boachie, Patrick Adu
{"title":"Beliefs negatively mediate adolescents' and adults' knowledge about sickle cell disease prevention and relationship choices; a one-center exploratory study in Central Region, Ghana.","authors":"Godfred Kiteinkwa Laar, Justine Mwinbeku, Ebenezer Allotey Pappoe, Emmanuella Obike, Elizabeth Ankomah, Belinda Baidoo, Diana Baaba Morrison, Joseph Boachie, Patrick Adu","doi":"10.1186/s13690-024-01379-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13690-024-01379-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a common monogenic inheritable condition in sub-Saharan Africa. 30% of Ghanaians are estimated to be carriers creating a condition for stable SCD penetrance. Being inheritable, SCD is scientifically preventable through intentional spousal selection. This study therefore explored young adults' knowledge, beliefs and prevention strategies regarding SCD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This exploratory study employed a mixed-methods approach (semi-structured questionnaires and focus group discussion [FGD]) to explore the SCD knowledge and beliefs of participants (15-49 years). The data collection was intentionally sequential; initial administration of 386 questionnaires and then followed by the FGD (16 participants). FGD was thematically analysed whereas quantitative data was explored using structural equation modeling (SEM); p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant under two-tailed assumptions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Whereas 98.7% reported having heard about SCD, < 50% got the information through formal education. Overall, 49.7% knew their respective SCD status; the proportion increased with age (48.8% in < 30 years vs 64.4% in ≥ 30 years old), or higher degree status (48.8% in undergraduates vs 67.4% in postgraduates). Moreover, whereas nine-in-ten correctly identified that SCD is hereditable, three-in-ten believed that having a SCD child was a matter of fate. Our FGD revealed that whereas curses, and spiritual attack were misconceived as potential causes of SCD, stigmatization associated with SCD was a major concern. The SEM demonstrated that one's knowledge about SCD prevention is significantly positively associated with relationship choices (b = 0.757, p < 0.05). Also, a participant's knowledge about SCD preventive strategies was significantly associated with the individual's beliefs about SCD (b = 0.335; p < 0.05). However, a participant's SCD beliefs negatively mediated SCD preventive strategies-relationship choices association.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>SCD beliefs likely transform linear quantitative associations into a complex non-linear interaction; public health campaigns ought to unearth and address SCD beliefs to maximize achieving the intended targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":48578,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Public Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348774/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mobile-linked point-of-care diagnostics in community-based healthcare: a scoping review of user experiences. 社区医疗保健中的移动链接护理点诊断:用户体验范围综述。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01376-4
Siphesihle R Nxele, Boitumelo Moetlhoa, Thobeka Dlangalala, Kuhlula Maluleke, Kabelo Kgarosi, Ashleigh B Theberge, Tivani Mashamba-Thompson
{"title":"Mobile-linked point-of-care diagnostics in community-based healthcare: a scoping review of user experiences.","authors":"Siphesihle R Nxele, Boitumelo Moetlhoa, Thobeka Dlangalala, Kuhlula Maluleke, Kabelo Kgarosi, Ashleigh B Theberge, Tivani Mashamba-Thompson","doi":"10.1186/s13690-024-01376-4","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13690-024-01376-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>While mobile-linked point-of-care diagnostics may circumvent geographical and temporal barriers to efficient communication, the use of such technology in community settings will depend on user experience. We conducted a scoping review to systematically map evidence on user experiences of mobile-linked point-of-care diagnostics in community healthcare settings published from the year 2016 up to the year 2022.</p><p><strong>Methodology: </strong>We conducted a comprehensive search of the following electronic databases: Scopus, Web of Science, and EBSCOhost (Medline, CINAHL, Africa-wide, Academic Search Complete). The inter-reviewer agreement was determined using Cohen's kappa statistic. Data quality was appraised using the mixed method appraisal tool version 2018, and the results were reported according to the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Following the abstract and full article screening, nine articles were found eligible for inclusion in data extraction. Following the quality appraisal, one study scored 72.5%, one study scored 95%, and the remaining seven studies scored 100%. Inter-rater agreement was 83.54% (Kappa statistic = 0.51, p < 0.05). Three themes emerged from the articles: approaches to implementing mobile-linked point-of-care diagnostics, user engagement in community-based healthcare settings, and limited user experiences in mobile-linked point-of-care diagnostics. User experiences are key to the sustainable implementation of mobile-linked point-of-care diagnostics. User experiences have been evaluated in small community healthcare settings. There is limited evidence of research aimed at evaluating the usability of mobile-linked diagnostics at the community level.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>More studies are needed to assess the user experience of mobile-linked diagnostics in larger communities. This scoping review revealed gaps that need to be addressed to improve user experiences of mobile-linked diagnostics, including language barriers, privacy issues, and clear instructions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48578,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Public Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11348575/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Situational Judgement Tests among Palestinian community members and Red Crescent volunteers to inform humanitarian action: a cross-sectional study. 对巴勒斯坦社区成员和红新月会志愿者进行情境判断测试,为人道主义行动提供信息:一项横断面研究。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01356-8
L S Moussaoui, M Quimby, H Avancini, A Salawdi, F Skaik, R Bani Odeh, O Desrichard, N Claxton
{"title":"Situational Judgement Tests among Palestinian community members and Red Crescent volunteers to inform humanitarian action: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"L S Moussaoui, M Quimby, H Avancini, A Salawdi, F Skaik, R Bani Odeh, O Desrichard, N Claxton","doi":"10.1186/s13690-024-01356-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13690-024-01356-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Informing humanitarian action directly from community members is recognized as critical. However, collecting community insights is also a challenge in practice. This paper reports data collected among community members and Red Crescent volunteers in the occupied Palestinian territory. The aim was to test a data collection tool, situational judgment tests (SJTs), to collect insights in the community around three themes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The SJTs covered violence prevention, road safety, and environmental pollution (waste), and were constituted of hypothetical scenarios to which respondents indicated how they would react. For each theme, the answers' pattern provides insights for humanitarian action regarding which beliefs to address. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in January and February 2023 with 656 community members, and 239 Red Crescent volunteers.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Data showed that violence is the theme for which the need is the highest among community members. Some responses varied according to the public (age, governorate, or disability level), suggesting actions could be tailored accordingly.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Despite many difficulties during data collection, this study show that the tool allowed to collect community insights, a crucial task to ensure adequate response to the challenges faced by community members and Red Crescent volunteers in occupied Palestine.</p>","PeriodicalId":48578,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Public Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11351291/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Does vertical integration increase the costs for primary care inpatients? Evidence from a national pilot programme in China. 纵向一体化是否会增加基层医疗机构住院病人的费用?来自中国国家试点项目的证据。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01378-2
Huawei Tan, Xueyu Zhang, Xinyi Peng, Dandan Guo, Yingchun Chen
{"title":"Does vertical integration increase the costs for primary care inpatients? Evidence from a national pilot programme in China.","authors":"Huawei Tan, Xueyu Zhang, Xinyi Peng, Dandan Guo, Yingchun Chen","doi":"10.1186/s13690-024-01378-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13690-024-01378-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the impact of vertical integration (VI) within County-Level Integrated Health Organisations (CIHOs) on the costs of primary care inpatients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study assessed Xishui, a national pilot county for CIHOs, using inpatient claims data. The treatment group comprised 10,118 inpatients from 5 vertically integrated township health centres (THCs), while the control group consisted of 21,165 inpatients from 19 non-vertically integrated THCs. The periods from July 2020 to December 2021 and January 2022 to December 2022 were defined as pre- and post-policy intervention, respectively. The primary outcome variables were total health expenditures (THS), out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures, and the proportion of OOP expenditures. Propensity score matching was employed to align inpatient demographics and disease characteristics between the groups, followed by a difference-in-differences analysis to evaluate the outcomes.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>VI significantly increased THS (β = 0.1337, p < 0.01) and OOP expenditures per case (β = 0.1661, p < 0.001), but the increase in the proportion of OOP expenditures per case was not significant (β = 0.0029, p > 0.05). For the basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents, THS per case (β = 0.1343, p < 0.01) and OOP expenditures (β = 0.1714, p < 0.001) significantly increased. For the basic medical insurance system for employees, THS per case also increased significantly (β = 0.1238, p < 0.01), but the change in OOP expenditure proportion per case was not significant (β = 0.1020, p > 0.05). The THS per case led by Xishui County People's Hospital, the leading county medical sub-centre (CMSC), significantly increased (β = 0.1753, p < 0.01), whereas the increase led by Xishui County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital was not significant (β = 0.0742, p > 0.05). Increases in OOP expenditures per case were significant in CMSCs led by the People's Hospital and the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (β = 0.1782, p < 0.01 and β = 0.0757, p < 0.05, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>VI significantly increased THS and OOP expenditures for primary care inpatients. However, VI could exacerbate economic disparities in disease burden across different insurance categories.</p>","PeriodicalId":48578,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Public Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11346275/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Policy brief - cancer research in Belgium. 政策简介--比利时的癌症研究。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01369-3
Gordana Raicevic Toungouz, Hélène A Poirel, Gabrielle Schittecatte, Marc Van Den Bulcke
{"title":"Policy brief - cancer research in Belgium.","authors":"Gordana Raicevic Toungouz, Hélène A Poirel, Gabrielle Schittecatte, Marc Van Den Bulcke","doi":"10.1186/s13690-024-01369-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13690-024-01369-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research is central to achieving Europe's Beating Cancer Plan, and is the key focus of the European Commission's Mission on Cancer. To successfully tackle the challenges we face in cancer research, a coordinated effort of the entire Belgian scientific community is needed. It is for this reason the Belgian Cancer Research Alliance was proposed. The aim of BeCRA is to bring together various Belgian research institutes and associated care institutions and position them optimally at the EU level, with respect to the many research initiatives launched in the EBCP within the EU4Health program, the Mission on Cancer, Digital Europe programs and other EU projects. Members of BeCRA collaboratively plan the participation in certain cancer research activities to ensure optimal use of investment and sustained excellence of Belgian cancer research. Belgium cancer research has an excellent track record in fundamental, translational research and phase I, II, III clinical trials. However, translating outcomes from research to patients in the Belgian healthcare system has been less successful. Gaps in the collaboration between actors in the research field, have led to fragmentation hampering the development of fundamental and translational research. Moreover, actors from multi-disciplinary background, such as behavioural or psycho-social fields, are not systematically included in cancer research. More efficient coordination between the aforementioned actors is necessary. Academic hospitals and universities should be incentivized to collaborate across regions, as well as to put sufficient focus on research activities with a virtuous spiral (\"bed-to bench\" and \"bench to bed\" process), while supporting researchers focusing on patient-driven research. There is an urgent need for Belgium to determine how best to ensure it remains an attractive market so that patients have access to innovative care. This could include streamlining regulatory complexity, while establishing lean and harmonized clinical trial designs, procedures and networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":48578,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Public Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11345948/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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"The ones at the bottom of the food chain": structural drivers of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion amongst adolescent girls in Zambia. "食物链底层的人":赞比亚少女意外怀孕和不安全堕胎的结构性驱动因素。
IF 3.2 3区 医学
Archives of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1186/s13690-024-01377-3
Joseph Mumba Zulu, Tamaryn L Crankshaw, Ramatou Ouedraogo, Kenneth Juma, Carolien J Aantjes
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