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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(6):554-556; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn117
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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The European health strategy—so what next?

Mark McCarthy

UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Correspondence: e-mail: m.mccarthy@ucl.ac.uk

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In October 2007, the European Commission published its Health Strategy1 for the period 2008–13, to provide ‘an overarching strategic framework spanning core issues in health as well as health in all policies and global health issues’. What is the background? How does it relate to other European health activities? Where is it going?


   Background
 
The legal base for health activities by the European Union is established in the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam: ‘a high level of human health protection shall be ensured in the definition and implementation of all Community policies and activities’. The European Commission created an administrative Unit for public health, and subsequently upgraded this to a full Directorate—now Directorate General (DG) Health and Consumers. The first health activities consolidated the existing work on serious diseases, and developed some new fields including regulations on blood and human tissues, and improving national health reporting. Pharmaceuticals, professional accreditation, electronics and research . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The health strategy
 
Framework for community activities in health
Four principles:
Three objectives:
Health services directive
Making change

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