Division 2.1.1.4 Developing strategies for information exchange and responding to non-communicable health threats (Annex — point 1.2)

Support for disease knowledge projects relating to their occurrence, treatments, risk factors, risk reduction strategies, costs of illness and social support in terms of developing best practice recommendations;

development of strategies and mechanisms for exchange of information among people affected by rare diseases and promotion of better epidemiological studies, codification, classification and definition;

support for European networks of reference for rare diseases in an effort to establish guidelines for best practice on treatment, and to share knowledge on these diseases, together with evaluation of performance;

feasibility studies to develop mechanisms for comprehensive data collection on the volume and impact of cross border health care, integrated into existing data collections systems within Member States and without undue additional administrative burden.