A Europe that cares, prepares, protects: Strengthening the EU Health Union (Eurohealth)
2023 Eurohealth (29.3)
Overview
To mark the 2024 Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Belgian health presidency team and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies worked together to reflect on a selection key priorities for the next Commission’s agenda with regard to the European Health Union. These priorities can be grouped in three thematic clusters: a Europe that cares, prepares, and protects.
The Belgian Minister Vandenbroucke, EU Health Ministers, and expert authors provide perspectives which should encourage debate on the potential ways forward. This issue of the European Observatory's journal is being launched in January 2024 to coincide with the start of the Presidency.
Visit the website of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU (Jan-Jun 2024)
Contents includes:
- Foreword
- Editorial
- The promise of a European Health Union
- Ensuring the availability of a sufficient health and care workforce
- Financial access to healthcare
- Comprehensive approach to health and wellbeing
- Towards needs-driven innovation and healthcare policies
- European health investment hub
- What could the EU do to build resilient health systems and resilient, healthy societies?
- Tackling the health workforce crisis: Towards a European health workforce strategy
- Ensuring affordable access to healthcare for everyone in the European Union
- How can the European Union scale-up action on non-communicable disease prevention?
- Identifying disease-specific patient and societal needs to foster needs-driven healthcare
- Revamping the EU's health security framework to manage future health crises
- Building capacity and identifying appropriate support
- EU joint actions 2.0: A booster for health in the EU?