About IMCA
What is IMCA Group?
IMCA Group is an international network integrated by epidemiologists, public health specialists and clinicians interested on the epidemiology, clinical management and health care policy issues related to major chronic respiratory diseases.
The group was initially created to develop the project “Indicators for Monitoring COPD and asthma in the EU (IMCA I)” funded by the European Commission. The overall aim of the project was to get a consensus among clinicians and researchers in the field of respiratory diseases, representatives from international organizations (i.e. WHO Europe) and scientific societies (i.e. ERS and EACCI) on a proposal for a set of indicators to monitor COPD and asthma in al EU Member States.
The result of this project has contributed to the framework and proposals of the European Community Health Indicators (ECHI) project and to the proposals set up by DG-SANCO in the Public Health Programme (2003-2008) to build a “European System of Information and knowledge on Major Chronic Diseases”.
The funding of the new project IMCA II allowed us to expand the initial network with new partners from other countries and also is making possible the development new objectives focused on data collection and to the development of new technologies for monitoring chronic respiratory diseases.
News
Final IMCA II meeting in Barcelona 12-13 April 2010
The final IMCA II meeting took place in Barcelona on 12 and 13 April 2010. About 30 participants coming from almost all IMCA partner organizations took place. The meeting was the opportunity to share the ultimate results of the different activities of the project within the IMCA network. Partners agreed on future dissemination activities of the project's results through subsmission of abstracts to scientific journal of events. Among other activities, an IMCA symposium will be held during the European Respiratory Congress in Barcelona in September 2010 as well as an IMCA workshop during the European Public Health Association Congress scheduled in November 2010 in Amsterdam.
