6 Amendments of Christel SCHALDEMOSE related to 2011/0402(CNS)
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – paragraph 1
Effective health promotion, supported by a robust evidence base, prevents disease, improves wellbeing and is cost effective. Health promotion and disease prevention also depend on an understanding of the determinants of health, including obesity, which is one of the main causes of many chronic illnesses, on effective preventive tools, such as vaccines, on effective health and disease surveillance and preparedness, and on effective screening programmes.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – paragraph 2
Successful efforts to prevent, manage, treat and cure disease, disability and reduced functionality are underpinned by the fundamental understanding of their causes, processes and impacts, as well as factors underlying good health and wellbeing. Effective sharing of data, standardised data processing and the linkage of these data with real-world large scale cohort studies is also essential, as is the translation of research findings into the clinic, in particular through the conduct of clinical trials.
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – point 1.1 – paragraph 2
In particular, a better understanding of the environment as a determinant of health will require integrated molecular biological, epidemiological and toxicological approaches to investigate health- environment relationships, including studies of endocrine disruptors used in consumer products and foodstuffs and modes of action of chemicals, combined exposures to pollution and other environmental and climate related stressors, integrated toxicological testing as well as alternatives to animal testing. Innovative approaches to exposure assessment are needed using new- generation biomarkers based on 'omics' and epigenetics, human biomonitoring, personal exposure assessments and modelling to understand combined, cumulative and emerging exposures, integrating socio-economic and behavioural factors. Improved links with environmental data using advanced information systems will be supported.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – point 1.3 – paragraph 1
Human populations are under threat from new and emerging infections (including those resulting from climate change), from drug resistance to existing pathogens and from other direct and indirect consequences of climate change. Improved methods for surveillance, including surveillance of drug resistance in both human and veterinary medicine, early warning networks, health service organisation and preparedness campaigns are needed for the modelling of epidemics, for effective pandemic response, for responses to non infectious disease consequences of climate change, as are efforts to maintain and enhance capabilities to combat drug resistant infectious disease.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – point 1.4 – paragraph 2
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – point 1.4 – paragraph 2
Underpinning research will encompass and encourage development and use of new tools and approaches for the generation of biomedical data and include ‘-omics’, high throughput and systems medicine approaches. These activities will demand close linkage between fundamental and clinical research and with long term cohort studies (and the corresponding research domains) as described above. Close links with research and medical infrastructures (databases, bio-banks etc.) will also be required, for standardisation, storage, sharing and free access to raw data, which are all essential for maximising data utility and for stimulating more innovative and effective ways of analysing and combining datasets.
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a decision
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – point 1.10 – paragraph 1
Annex 1 – part III – point 1 – point 1.10 – paragraph 1
The integration of infrastructures and information structures and sources (including those derived from cohort studies, protocols, data collections, indicators, etc.) as well as the standardisation, interoperability, storage, sharing of and free access to raw data, will be supported to enable such data to be properly exploited. Attention should be given to data processing, knowledge management, modelling and visualisation.