Concept

Concept

Why EQUICARES?

Healthcare disparities in the EU are widening, challenging the principle of universal and equitable access. People in vulnerable situations, such as migrants, the Roma and the LQBTQIA+ communities, people with mental and or physical disabilities as well as elderly and youth populations , struggle to access quality mental health services, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Barriers include inadequate legal protections, geographic disparities, social stigma, and poor mental health literacy.
Ensure that policy and decision makers have enhanced access to quality data, helping them to identify barriers to service access, the unmet needs of people in vulnerable situations, as well as relevant innovations, and produce evidence-based recommendations towards the scale-up, and replication of our results.

Objectives

1. Understand Barriers and Enablers:

Analyse mental health service access challenges and facilitators for people in vulnerable situations

2. Innovate Solutions:

Identify, test, and assess cost-effective solutions to improve mental healthcare access

3. Engage Communities:

Co-create in “Smart Health Labs” and test AI based assistant

4. Pilot & Empower:

Test innovative solutions at 8 pilot sites to enhance access and foster health and digital literacy

5. Inform Policy:

Evaluate impact, costs, and unmet needs to provide evidence-based policy recommendations

Concept

Why EQUICARES?

Healthcare disparities in the EU are widening, challenging the principle of universal and equitable access. People in vulnerable situations, such as migrants, the Roma and the LQBTQIA+ communities, people with mental and or physical disabilities as well as elderly and youth populations , struggle to access quality mental health services, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Barriers include inadequate legal protections, geographic disparities, social stigma, and poor mental health literacy.
Ensure that policy and decision makers have enhanced access to quality data, helping them to identify barriers to service access, the unmet needs of people in vulnerable situations, as well as relevant innovations, and produce evidence-based recommendations towards the scale-up, and replication of our results.

Objectives

1. Understand Barriers
and Enablers:

Analys mental health service access challenges and facilitators for people in vulnerable situations.

2. Innovate
Solutions:

Identify, test, and assess cost-effective solutions to improve mental healthcare access.

3. Engage
Communities:

Co-create in “Smart Health Labs” and test AI based assistant.

4. Pilot &
Empower:

Test innovative solutions at 8 pilot sites to enhance access and foster health and digital literacy.

5. Inform
Policy:

Evaluate impact, costs, and unmet needs to provide evidence-based policy recommendations.

Funded by the European Union under GA no. 101156500. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Funded by the European Union under GA no. 101156500. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.