Program duration: 01/10/2015 - 30/09/2018
MOCHA – Models of Child Health Appraised | A European Commission Horizon 2020 project on Models of Healthcare
Prolepsis participates as a Country Agent in a new European project called MOCHA – Models of Child Health Appraised. MOCHA started in October 2015; it is a three-year project and is implemented under the EU Research and Innovation programme – Horizon 2020.
MOCHA seeks to obtain and analyse key information on a range of child primary care issues from 30 European Commission and European Economic Area countries. 19 scientific partners from 10 European countries plus Switzerland, Boston USA and Melbourne will work with country agents from all 30 countries on the following topics:
• Models of primary care delivered to children (including urgent care)
• Delivery of care across organisational boundaries (with secondary care, social care, education etc.) including complex care, and services for child protection
• School health services, and direct access services for adolescents
• Identification of innovative measures of Quality and Outcome
• Identification of derivatives from large data sets to measure quality and outcome
• Economic and Skill Set analyses
• Ensuring Equity for all children
• Use of electronic records in child health.
For the first year, the MOCHA project will collect information about each country’s primary health care system for children, using a local agent in each country to collect standard scientifically-focused data. The project team will then spend the next year analysing that material and drawing preliminary conclusions. The final stage of the project will be to propose the best models, and how countries might adopt them. Throughout there will be a process of dissemination of information and stakeholder engagement.
Contact information
Dina Zota, Project coordinator (for Greece): d.zota@prolepsis.gr
Services: Preventive Medicine
Project partners
Coordinator:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London UK
Partners:
The CNR Institute of Neuroscience (CNR-IN) Padua and Rome, Italy
European University Cyprus
Harstad University College
Karolinska Institute
University of Keele, UK
King’s College London, UK
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
Medical University of Lubline (MUL) Poland
University College Dublin, Ireland
The University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland
The University of Iceland
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Netherlands
The University of Southern Denmark (Syddansk Universitet, SDU) Denmark
University of Surrey, UK
Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
TNO (The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, TNO)
Boston Children’s Hospital, United States
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia
Relative links
http://www.childhealthservicemodels.eu/