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The European Journal of Public Health 1997 7(Supplement 3):4-10; doi:10.1093/eurpub/7.suppl_3.4
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Patient mobility within the European Union

Jean Hermesse1, Henri Lewalle1 and Willy Palm1

1 Alliance Nationale des Mutualitiés Chrétiennes Bruxelles, Belgium

Correspondence: Willy Palm, Alliance Nationale des Mutualités Chrétiennes, Rue de la Loi 121, 1040 Bruxelles, Belgium, tel. +32 2 2374111, fax +32 2 2373300

Received May 7, 1996 , accepted January 3, 1997

The European integration process and the application of the principle of free movement to new areas of social economic life are raising new questions. One of these questions is the potential mobility of patients within the European Union (EU). Under a commission from the Directorate General V of the European Commission, the authors conducted a study of this topic in 1991. The normative framework used in this study is again used here to analyse in depth the types of cross-border care available under social protection. In this paper the main results of this study are summarized and, where possible, updated. In the first part of the paper the historical development of the European cross-border care regulatory system is charted. A second part deals with the macro-analysis of patient flows. In the final part of the paper, some conclusions are drawn as to the desirable development of the EU policy with respect to cross-border care (de)regulation.

Keywords: cross-border care, free movement of patients within the EU


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