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Applications Open for Horizon 2020 Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing Project Funding

27/07/2018

Europe faces four main healthcare challenges: the rising and potentially unsustainable health and care costs, mainly due to the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases, to an ageing population requiring more diversified care and to increasing societal demands; the influence on health of external environmental factors including climate change; the risk to lose its ability to protect populations against the threats of infectious diseases; and health inequalities and access to health and care.