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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(2):212-213; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn003
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

EUPHA President's column: equity, solidarity and EUPHA

Ilmo Keskimäki

EUPHA president 2007–2008

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In his excellent plenary at the Helsinki EUPHA Conference in October 2007, Professor Martin McKee reflected the future of the European social model. In a way, he claimed that the success of Europe rests on the social model accepted widely in European countries and based on solidarity, transfers from the rich to the poor, from the young to the old and from the healthy to the sick. Furthermore, Professor McKee claimed that this model is currently challenged from many directions. In fact, the social model is not yet very well established and it is not difficult to identify violations of its principle in European countries. McKee mentioned a touchy example. The Roma people who have been living in Europe for a thousand years are still discriminated either openly or indirectly in many countries. Moreover, on ideological or economic grounds the model is being criticized. Professor McKee's speech was published in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Dineke Zeegers Paget

EUPHA general manager


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