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Update 62, "What role for the EU in Health Care?" - now available online


Traditionally, national governments in Europe have guarded jealously their right to manage health care. They claim this "subsidiarity" not only because the health sector is a major employer, procurer and service provider. An estimated eight per cent of the European Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is devoted to health spending.


In this issue:

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Health care and the internal market

- Free movement of patients: is it good for patients and consumers?

Willy Palm, Association Internationale de la Mutualité (AIM)

- Free movement of professionals: opening up opportunities or perpetuating problems?

Glenn Gathercole, the Standing Committee of Nurses of the European Union (PCN)

- Free movement of pharmaceuticals: what defines the prices?

Leigh Hancher, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands

Complementary health care

- Complementary Health Care: is there a Role for the EU?

Nuala Ahern MEP, Chair of the European Parliament Working Group on Complementary and Natural Medicine

- Integrated Health Care in Europe

Stephen Gordon, European Council for Classical Homeopathy

Policy:

- Spanish Presidency: Interview with Celia Villalobos Talero, Spanish Health Minister

Regular features:

- EU developments in health

- Publications

- Conferences

- News in brief

- Health corner: EPHA member activities

- EPHA in action

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Last modified on July 14 2003.

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