During the Dutch Presidency, there will be an informal Health Council on 9-10 September 2004 which will focus on the theme of the ’Health and the Internal Market’.
In connection with the Health Council, a major international conference is being organised in the Hague, Netherlands on 7-9 September 2004. Entitled Shaping the EU Health Community: Balancing Health, Social Development and Internal Market it is being organised by the Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare (NIZW).
EPHA is a member of the Steering Committee for the conference and will be organising a 3 hour parallel workshop on Public health and the internal market. Suggestions for speakers or themes for this event are welcome: please contact the EPHA Secretariat.
The overall objectives of the conference are
to focus the EU internal market on improving citizen’s health;
to highlight the effects of varying contexts and perceptions of health across Europe and to make the effects of health, social development and internal market / public private mix in the EU health community explicit;
to identify shared interests and challenges and to identify opportunities to exchange best practices and experience;
to offer information, data and policy suggestions for an EU health strategy to the European institutions (Council and Parliament) as well as national policy-makers.
