Optimal Nutritional Care for All
Launched in 2014, the Optimal Nutritional Care for All (ONCA) campaign is a multi-stakeholder initiative to facilitate greater screening for risk of disease-related malnutrition/undernutrition and nutritional care implementation across Europe.
The campaign supports national professional societies, associations and patient groups in public health and health care in 20 countries to implement nutritional risk screening and optimal nutritional care. The European Nutrition for Health Alliance (ENHA) provides structure, coordinates, inspires and facilitates.
EU4Nutrition
Through the EU4Nutrition programme, ENHA and ONCA engage with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, to secure nutrition care in European Union’s policies, and programmes and in the recommendations to its Member States.
Malnutrition: from Awareness towards Control
Malnutrition and undernutrition affect over 30 Million European citizens and place an unacceptable burden on European citizens and health care budgets.
Integrating patient-centered nutritional care in health policies will significantly contribute to prevention, better patient outcomes, and improved quality of life. Moreover, ample scientific evidence shows that optimizing nutritional care is a very (cost-) effective measure.
Despite this overwhelming scientific evidence, malnutrition is often underdiagnosed and undertreated, causing unacceptable inequalities between people and countries.
Optimal nutritional care must be considered a human right and patients should have equitable, timely access to the nutritional care needed to achieve their best possible outcome. The overall aim of the conference was to provide tools and background to implement nutritional care plans for all citizens, whether at home or in a health care facility.
Day 1 of the ONCA Conference took place in the astonishing Teatro Regio, the Royal Theatre of Turin.
Day 2 took place in the beautiful conference rooms of the NH Centro Hotel.
The Conference Programme
The conference was proudly hosted by the Italian ONCA team, which includes the society for artificial nutrition and metabolism SINPE, the Italian patient organizations, the active scientific societies collaborating with SINPE in the interdisciplinary effort to combat malnutrition, representatives of the Ministry of Health, and many more.
This conference edition marked a significant step forward as we aspire to further transform the ONCA conference into an even more interactive ‘European nutritional care policy summit.’ While securing the patient’s perspective, we explored both national and European Union-level policies, bridging the gap between nutrition science and effective policies.
Please find the programme for days 1 and 2 below.
Day 1 A NUTRITIONAL CARE POLICY SUMMIT
Day 2 THE INTERACTIVE ONCA WORKSHOPS
- Empowering Health through Knowledge: Implementing Successful Nutrition Education
Moderators: Cristina Cuerda and Maurizio Muscaritoli - Enabling Patient Engagement: The Essential Driver for Advancing Nutritional Policies
Robert Greene - Metrics that matter: Transforming Nutritional Care Policies through Data-Driven Paradigm Shifts
Moderators: Alessandro Laviano and Mark Nuijten
- Economic Foundations: Steering Nutritional Care Policies Towards Health
Moderators: Emanuele Cereda and Henrik Højgaard - Optimizing Malnutrition Awareness Week: Fostering Good Practices for Collective Success
Moderators: Konstantina Togka, Silvia Tarantino, Mariana Kalliostra - Intestinal Failure and Nutrition: Unmet Needs that Resonate with Policymakers
Moderators: Stéphane Schneider and Marek Lichota
