{"id":10318,"date":"2018-06-05T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2018-06-05T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:18:22","slug":"empowered-nurses-support-the-shift-towards-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=10318","title":{"rendered":"Empowered nurses support the shift towards prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a balance between quality and expenditure control in healthcare is becoming an urgent priority among EU Member States, as highlighted by the European Semester <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/publications\/2018-european-semester-country-reports_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Country Reports 2018<\/a>. Moreover, the need to meet cost-effectiveness requirements and ensure the sustainability of the health system is one of the most recurring reference in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/publications\/2018-european-semester-country-specific-recommendations-commission-recommendations_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Country Specific Recommendations<\/a> for healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this objective, it is therefore crucial to strengthen disease prevention measures in public health. It is time to revert the very negative European trend that sees that less than 3% of national health budgets are spent on prevention, while 80% is spent on treating chronic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>More efforts are needed to promote and finance prevention and primary care, in which nurses can greatly contribute thanks to their coaching roles to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.be\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjpysmRv63bAhWRjqQKHXwCCRAQFggpMAA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Feur-lex.europa.eu%2Flegal-content%2FEN%2FALL%2F%3Furi%3Dcelex%253A32013L0055&amp;usg=AOvVaw1N7oUJQi-mneUKjoTJCIta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">empower individuals and families<\/a>, as well as in <a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EFN-Policy-Statement-on-Public-Health-Virtual-Coaching1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promoting health literacy and changes in health behaviour<\/a> throughout the life-course of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding a balance between quality and expenditure control in healthcare&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}