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PubMed2001

Food and nutritional care in hospitals: how to prevent undernutrition--report and guidelines from the Council of Europe.

In 1999 the Council of Europe decided to collect information regarding Nutrition programmes in hospitals and for this purpose a network consisting of national experts from eight of the Partial Agreement member states was established. The aim was to review the current practice in Europe regarding hospital food provision, to highlight deficiencies and to issue guidelines to improve the nutritional care and support of hospitalized patients. Five major problems seemed to be common in this context: 1) lack of clearly defined responsibilities; 2) lack of sufficient education; 3) lack of influence of the patients; 4) lack of co-operation among all staff groups; and 5) lack of involvement from the hospital management. To solve the problems highlighted, a combined 'team-effort' is needed from national authorities and all staff involved in the nutritional care and support, including hospital managers.

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PubMed1997

The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine of the Council of Europe.

The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine developed by the Council of Europe, now undergoing ratification, is the first international treaty focused on bioethics. This article describes the background of the Convention's development and its general provisions and provides a comparison of its requirements with those of federal regulations governing research with human subjects. Although most provisions are comparable, there are significant differences in scope and applicability, for example, in the areas of compensation for injury, research participation by persons with limited capacity to consent, assisted reproduction, organ transplantation, and research in emergency situations. The Convention represents a milestone in international bioethics and protection of human rights that will probably be referred to with increasing frequency.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2004

[The role of the council of Europe in the field of health].

To understand the actions of the Council of Europe in the field of human health, it is necessary first to understand the founding ideals, that is to say the creation in 1949 of a European institution capable of anticipating and avoiding differences and conflicts between the member states, whatever their standard of living. For the creation of status objectives, the Council has an appropriate working structure; the Committee of Ministers, the Parliamentary Assembly, non governmental organisations and the European Health Committee, which proposes, develops and oversees the effective application of health measures and social protection. Several hundred recommendations have thus been adopted by the Committee of Ministers. The first steps of this European Health Committee were in the areas of blood transfusion, immunohematology, transplantation and equal access to health services. The European Social Security Code and its Protocol, the Conventions on social and medical assistance, and many international agreements are effective treaties which bind Member States.

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PubMed2005

Movement toward international harmonisation. Activities of the WHO, GCBS and Council of Europe.

The World Health Organisation, Global Collaboration for Blood Safety and the Council of Europe cannot harmonise by binding regulation, but they can bring important matters to discussion. They can also give guidelines and recommendations, and work out resolutions for national ratification. All this and also the networks created by these organisations are important in improving blood safety and harmonising the policy and practices in the field of transfusion medicine.

Blood Donors↗
PubMed2002

Practices in relation to nutritional care and support--report from the Council of Europe.

Disease-related undernutrition is significant in European hospitals but is seldom treated. In 1999, the Council of Europe decided to collect information regarding Nutrition programmes in hospitals and for this purpose a network consisting of national experts from 12 of the Partial Agreement member states was established. The aim was to review the current practice in Europe regarding hospital food provision, to highlight deficiencies and to issue recommendations in improve the nutritional care and support of hospitalised patients. The data collection regarding the nutritional care providers and their practices of nutritional care and support showed that the use of nutritional risk screening and assessment, and of nutritional support and counselling was sparse and inconsistent, and that the responsibilities in these contexts were unclear. Besides, the educational level with regard to nutritional care and support was limited at all levels. All patients have the right to expect that their nutritional needs will be fulfilled during a hospitalisation. Optimal supply of food is a prerequisite for an optimal effect of the specific treatment offered to patients. Hence, the responsibilities of staff categories and the hospital management with respect to procuring nutritional care and support should be clearly assigned. Also, a general improvement in the educational level of all staff groups is needed.

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PubMed2002

The Council of Europe's instruments on biomedical research: how is conflict of interest addressed?

Conflict of interest is an issue that has been put in the spotlight by the commercial application of the new biomedical technologies. This paper presents the approach of the Council of Europe and the binding legal instruments to deal with this problem. The main focus is on the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, and its draft additional Protocol on Biomedical Research.

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The role of the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe in combating drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking.

The Pompidou Group, a co-operation group to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking in drugs, has functioned at the Council of Europe since 1980 as a section of the Directorate of Economic and Social Affairs. Owing to its specific features, it is the only organization of its kind in Europe that deals with all areas of drug control, including the work of police and customs authorities, as well as work on prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, epidemiology and research. It also deals with fellowship programmes. The political and technical activities of the Pompidou Group are described in this article, illustrating how it operates in the area of combating drug abuse at the international level.

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The Council of Europe Co-operation Group to Combat Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Drugs (the Pompidou Group).

The Pompidou Group was set up in 1971 to provide a forum for exchanging views and concerting action in Western Europe in response to the growing drugs problem. Until 1979 it had no formal status, but in 1980 the Group became part of the Council of Europe with member States being free to choose whether to join or not. Its initial membership of six countries has expanded to 16 members. Every two to three years, ministers from member countries meet to review the work of the Group and to set a new programme of activities. Government officials (Permanent Correspondents) then meet to further the programme by arranging meetings, working groups, seminars, symposia and related activities of experts in particular fields. The Group has considered a wide variety of topics of general interest, which included: European cooperation in the control of drug traffic; problems connected with drug addicts in prison; the care of hard-core addicts; problems related to the staffing of treatment and rehabilitation services; the development of administrative monitoring systems for the assessment of public health and social problems related to drug misuse; drug trafficking on the high seas; the role of the criminal justice system in responding to the needs of drug misusers; methods of reaching young people particularly at risk; problems concerning women and drugs; control services at major European airports; cannabis misuse in Europe; acquired immunodeficiency syndrome among drug misusers; and consideration of elements for inclusion in a new United Nations convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1990

[The fight against doping: international and national efforts as exemplified by the Convention of the Council of Europe and the doping regulations of the Swiss National Association for Sports].

The international and national efforts to flight doping in sports are shown by the examples of the Anti-Doping Convention of the Council of Europe and the regulations of the Swiss Association of Sports. Major efforts are made in the fields of education and information, search for and application of optimal methods for training and care as well as dope-controls at and out of competitions. The harmonization of the anti-doping regulations and the disciplinary procedures that have to follow the principles of natural justice are considered to be important. The Swiss regulations allow, at variance with international customs, to treat injured athletes therapeutically with doping-substances.

Anabolic Agents↗
PubMed1982

The Council of Europe approach to toxicity testing and toxicological evaluation.

The differences in national requirements for testing the safety-in-use of certain chemicals such as pesticides, flavourings, plastics food packaging and cosmetic products and their ingredients, has prompted the Council of Europe, an international inter-governmental organisation, to approach these problems through the elaboration of general guidelines for toxicity testing and toxicological evaluation. These are intended as a model for national authorities and manufacturers on the information to be supplied and the procedure to be followed for the inclusion in positive lists of the substances in question and are open to revision or modification at any time.

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