EU Health Forum

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The EU Health Forum serves as an information and consultation mechanism to ensure that the aims of the Community’s health strategy are made clear to the public and respond to their concerns. It provides an opportunity to representative organisations of patients, health professionals and other stakeholders, such as health service providers, to make contributions to health policy development, its implementation and the setting of priorities for action.

The EU Health Forum is composed of two complementary elements: An Open Forum as a platform for general exchange of information and for a discussion with a broader range of groups and interested parties, and a Health Policy Forum with a consistent set of member organisations, for the discussion of key policy areas.


Open Forum 2004

Documents

• “Health is Wealth”. Strategic visions for European health care at the beginning of the 21st century
The European Academy of Sciences and Arts

• “Health is Wealth”.  Summary
Professor Felix Unger,
President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

• “Health is Wealth”.  Abstract
Professor Felix Unger, President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts


Parallel session 1: Delivering Health: The Challenges of Providing High Quality Health Services in the Enlarged Europe

• Position paper of the German Social Insurance System on the draft Directive on Services in the Internal Market.

• Draft Directive on Services in the Internal Market

• EU Health Policy Forum Recommendations on Health and Social Policy

• EU Health Policy Forum Recommendations on Mobility of Health Professionals

• The final report of the High Level Process of Reflection on Patient Mobility and Healthcare Developments in the EU

• Decisions of the European Court of Justice and Art. 23 on reimbursement of treatment of the Draft Directive on Services in the Internal Market

Parallel session 2: Healthy Lifestyles in Europe

• The role of health promotion in tackling inequalities in health, Policy Recommendations (based on the report of the project, September 2001), EuroHealthNet

• “Health, Poverty and Social Inclusion in Europe, Literature review on concepts, relations and solutions”, EuroHealthNet, September 2003

• “Proven Strategies to Improve Older People’s Health - a Eurolink Age report for the European Commission” + Guidelines for policy-makers in the EU, 1999, Eurolink Age

• “Promoting Gender equity in EU Public Health”, the European Institute of Women’s Health
 
• ENSP Framework Project 2002-2003
Quantitative measurement of tobacco control in European countries
final report available in mid-March.

• Joint report on social exclusion


• Joint Commission/Council Report on supporting national strategies for the future of health care and care for the elderly (10/03/2003)


• The social situation in the EU, 2003 – Eurostat

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