Mocha
Planning a healthy future for Europe’s population
"Healthy ageing starts here"
The project ”Models of Child Health Appraised” (MOCHA) will examine and appraise the differing models of child health used in 30 European countries and Australia.
Focus is on the primary health sector and different themes such as how to support children and adolescents with difficulties like ADHD and Autism, the collaboration between health professionals and which political and social aspects affect the interventions for children and adolescents.
Mindhood collaborates with the Danish project manager Center for Collaborate Health, Aarhus University and contributes to the project with important research-based knowledge on child mental health.
The MOCHA results can provide knowledge on how healthcare systems within the primary sector support the health of children and adolescents in the best possible way.
Why? Children’s health is important for Europe’s future. Today’s children are citizens, future workers, future parents and future carers. Children depend on good health services. But these are structured differently throughout the European Union, and there is little research into what works best. To help every child benefit from optimum health care, the MOCHA project will perform a systematic, scientific evaluation of the types of health care that exist.
How? The MOCHA scientific team are from 11 European countries, and will be joined by experts from Australia and the United States. We will use expertise from networks in child health, previous children’s health projects and knowledge from local agents in different European countries to build a picture of what type of health care for children exists in all 30 EU/EEA countries.
Collection of Danish data will proceed until early 2018
Contact:
Lisbeth Lund
Project manager,
MOCHA Country Agent for Denmark
Mail: ll@au.dk
The Country Agent function is essential to the MOCHA project for a unique and comprehensive collection of data about child health models of primary care in every country.
The country agent must perform a wide variety of tasks, using their research knowledge and skill to gather data for each of the Work Packages in the MOCHA project.