Shifting sands of health: Democracy, demographics, digitalisation (Eurohealth)
2024 Eurohealth (30.2)
17 September 2024
| Technical Note

Overview
This special issue of Eurohealth offers a pre-reader for the 2024 European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), a key platform for health policy exchange. The discussions at this year’s EHFG will focus on the ever-changing health landscape in Europe - driven by the complex “3D” interplay of democracy, demographics, and digitalisation - and their wide-ranging implications for the health of our societies and healthcare systems.Contents include:
- Foreword by Johannes Rauch
- Guest editorialPlenary
- Democracy and health at the crossroads of Europe's future
- How Wales is tackling health inequalities for future generations
- Embracing democracy in healthcare – Creating an inclusive and trustworthy European Health Data Space
Democracy, demographics, digitalisation
- Advancing gender equality in health through femtech and inclusive digitalisation
- Women in global health: accelerating leadership through mentoring
- Securing the foundations as we build a European Health Union: an EU health investment hub for the era of shifting sands
- Corporate political activity in EU policymaking: an obstacle to achieving noncommunicable disease targets?
- Healthy patient, healthy planet: how better chronic disease management benefits both health and the environment
- Rethinking social contracts in a risk society
- Realising food democracy by tackling 'fear of the masses' in public debates
- Future health priorities for the EU: key insights from the public debate
WHO Team
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Reference numbers
ISBN: ISSN 1356–1030