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The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(6):556-557; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn118
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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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Response to ‘The European health strategy—so what next?’

Christopher Birt

Correspondence: e-mail: christopher.birt@liverpool.ac.uk

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The European Union's (EU's) Health Strategy for 2008–131 can perhaps be said to mark the ‘coming of age’ of public health within the Commission (EC); formal EC public health policy has indeed come a long way since the publication of the first EC Framework Programme in public health2 in late 1993. In those days there was no concept whatsoever of any kind of all-embracing strategy for public health; there were merely some rather uncoordinated disease-prevention programmes, many of which had developed on the basis of inter-governmental collaboration on a few issues, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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