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Objectives:

- To contribute to the improvement of lifelong health and well-being;

- In particular, promoting an active and independent elderly population for longer and supporting the development of new, safer and more effective social interventions;

- To promote the sustainability and excellence of the health care systems;

- To promote efficiency in information management relative to health, demographic change and well-being;

- To understand health and well-being determinant factors (such as nutrition, physical activity, gender issues, environmental, economics and occupational aspects);

- To contribute to an understanding of diseases and to the improvement of diagnostics and prognostics methodologies;

- To prevent, cure and manage diseases;

- To develop effective prevention and screening programs and to improve disease susceptibility evaluation methodologies;

- To promote sustainable, efficient and integrated healthcare services.