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🙌 Thrilled to be included in 's "Who to Follow in 2024 - Health" lineup featuring Europe's healthcare trailblazers! 🩺🔬 From advocating for psychosocial oncology care 🧠 to driving medical innovations 💊, this diverse group is shaping a healthier future for the continent. I'm honored to be among these visionary voices. 🌟 A big thank you 🙏 to EUInsider for the recognition. Let's continue pushing boundaries and transforming lives through collaborative progress in health policy and medical breakthroughs. 🚀Check out below the full list of health leaders to watch 👀 and join the journey towards better care for all Europeans! 👍🇪🇺
https://www.euinsider.eu/who-to-follow-list/who-to-follow-in-2024-health

ECO MARKS WORLD HEALTH DAY 2024
Prof. Csaba Dégi, president of the European Cancer Organisation
https://www.europeancancer.org/resources/408:world-health-day.html

This year's theme, 'My health, my right', profoundly resonates with ECO's mission to ensure everyone has equal access to cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, regardless of socioeconomic status, geographical location, or systemic inequalities.

Cancer is still one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and too many people face challenges in accessing essential care. ECO believes every person deserves access to high-quality healthcare services, regardless of their circumstances. As an organisation, ECO works tirelessly to facilitate dialogue between leading experts, policymakers, and members of civil society, fostering an environment of collaboration and shared understanding.

Last month, ECO hosted a crucial workshop in Brussels, bringing together European civil societies to discuss the pressing challenges cancer patients and their families face and the urgent need to address disparities in healthcare access and outcomes. Through its initiatives, ECO strives to amplify the voices of those affected by cancer, ensuring that their perspectives and experiences inform policy decisions and shape the future of cancer care.

On this World Health Day, let us reaffirm our commitment to upholding healthcare as a fundamental human right. Together, we can break down barriers, challenge inequalities, and build a future where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy and fulfilling life.

HAPPY SPRING FROM ECO'S PRESIDENT: A NEW BOARD SETS SAIL It seemed all so familiar. But it wasn't.

I had been to plenty of ECO board meetings over the years. I knew them well. But on 14 March, as the new ECO president, I was now responsible for chairing this meeting. It was a totally different experience.

Yes, I knew the room. I knew most of the fourteen other board members sitting around the table. But it just felt very different. For starters, it was now up to me to set the agenda for this seven-hour session. What were all the issues we needed to address? And in what order?

Working with our CEO Mike Morrissey, we slotted close to fifty different topics. Some were pro forma items that could be dealt with quickly. Others were thorny issues that would require thoughtful discussion and debate. But as president, this agenda would reflect my priorities and sensibilities, and there were at least three areas of particular importance to me.

ECO's Strategic Plan 2024 – 2027
We are fortunate to have a sober, pragmatic strategy to guide us forward. What's new, and what we discussed, is the need to double down on our policy agenda because we have pivotal elections coming up – not only for the European Parliament but for parliaments in many countries across Europe. If ever there was a time to bang the drum and push the cancer agenda, this is it. I cannot emphasise this enough. We must not be passive. We must not be complacent. There is a real risk that after this election cycle, cancer could cease to be a priority issue and our many promising initiatives will be stalled or relegated to the amorphous 'chronic disease basket'.

ECO's Time to Accelerate Against Cancer Manifesto
Launched at the Cancer Summit in November, this document provides a detailed roadmap for politicians on how to improve cancer care across Europe: what specific policies are needed and why. Our goal now is to accelerate dissemination of – and commitment to – the manifesto. This means reaching out not only to current MEPs and MPs, but to all candidates running for office across Europe. We want to ensure that anyone in an eventual position of influence commits now to this manifesto for better cancer care.

ECO's Human Capital
We have a wonderful, dedicated staff in Brussels. We ask much of them, and they deliver. But we must constantly look for ways to retain employees and attract talented new ones. This is not a topic we often discuss at board meetings, but it is an important one, especially now with Europe's Beating Cancer Plan and our rapid expansion into project implementation. Just last month I was proud to learn that ECO has won three new EU projects, all related to mental health and cancer care. In all, ECO now has 23 European projects to deliver. So the workload is growing, and we need to be ever vigilant about the expanding demands on staff.

Finally, I want to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to the ECO board for their wise counsel and steady support. Together, we have set an ambitious course for the next two years. We're now on our way.

With warm wishes, Csaba

https://www.europeancancer.org/resources/406:a-new-board-sets-sail.html

European Cancer Organisation | Community News | February 2024 🎗️📰 From the ECO President: A Missing Element? 🤔
"Cancer doesn't confine itself to one body part or one physical system. It has devastating consequences across biological, social, and psychological spheres 🧬👥🧠. Indeed, every aspect of 'being'. And this needs to be addressed in every project we initiate." ✊

Read more here: ❗️👇
https://www.europeancancer.org/resources/395:from-the-president-a-missing-element.html

Participarea in mobiliatea de observare directa la locul de munca, desfasurata in luna mai 2022 in cadrul proiectului 2019-1-RO01-KA104-062613
with the title „Mobility for carers of people of oncological diseases”-MOB-Oncosuport, a avut un impact remarcabil la nivelul participantilor, voluntari cu specialitati diferite din Centrul Oncosuport Cluj: asistenti medicali, sociolog, psiholog, kinetoterapeut, manager de centru de sanatate, psihopedagog. Mobilitatea s-a desfasurat la Fondazione ANT Italia ONLUS, din Bologna, care asigura asistență medicală de specialitate gratuită la domiciliu pentru bolnavii de cancer, instruire si asistenta psihologica familiilor acestora. Cu aceasta ocazie participantii au luat contact pentru prima data cu conceptul “Eubiosia” promovat de organizatia de primire, care inseamna- viata demna. Fundatia ANT a luat fiinta tocmai pentru a răspunde, cu dragoste, chemării suferinței și pentru a răspândi principiul Eubiosiei, înțeles ca un set de calități care conferă demnitate pe parcursul vietii, de la prima până la ultima suflare.
Contactul cu modelul de ingrijire si de sustinere al pacientilor si familiilor acestora promovata de ANT, a avut un impact la nivel personal si profesional al participantilor, determinand promovarea unui climat relational pozitiv fata de familie si colegi, de ajutorare si compasiune fata de pacienti/beneficiari si apatinatori, contribuind la reducerea stresului, cresterea randamentului si crearea unui model de viata imbunatatit. Au inteles forta de care dispune societatea civila, atunci cand este chemata sa imbunatateasca viata semenilor suferinzi si cand activitatile sunt desfasurate cu mult seriozitate, transparenta si corectitudine. Cresterea stimei de sine si dezvoltarea spiritului antreprenorial, au motivat participantii sa se implice activ in adaptarea modelului ANT in cadrul Centrului Oncosuport din Romania.
Multumim Erasmus+ pentru aceasta sansa!