BACKGROUND Unsafe injections, through infectious bodily fluids, are a major route of transmission for hepatitis B and C. Viral hepatitis burden among people who inject drugs is particularly high in many Member States of central and Eastern Europe while national capacity and willingness to address it varies greatly. METHODS The initial survey included 43 questions covering awareness, data, pre...

This report addresses the current trends in Member States of the European Union (EU) and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) on how to promote better integration of health information systems (HISs). To understand what better integration means from a pragmatic perspective, we conducted interviews with experts from 13 EU Member States, the results of which were combined with the findings from...

s were then appraised independently by two reviewers, who compared results and discussed discrepant decisions until an agreement was reached. Full papers were then obtained and reviewed for inclusion for data extraction and review. The results of the literature search were as follows: • 2829 documents for title screening • 591 documents for abstract screening • 171 documents agreed for full pap...

Based on produced regional data tourism arrivals across 297 NUTS2 regions of the EU and EFTA countries covering temporal scope 2010–2018, spatial concentration tourist inflow in Europe, average annual dynamics between a relative position branch economy given region has been determined. An attempt was made to present typology according weighted intensity inflow. Special attention SPOT project ca...

The current study aims at providing empirical and theoretical support to the important topic of international student mobility (ISM) in Europe. Specifically, it provides analysis degree-mobile students 32 countries: European Union (EU), Free Trade Association (EFTA) United Kingdom. is based on aggregate data from Tertiary Education Register (ETER). goal construct indicator (benchmark) for analy...