Rethinking solidarity in health: Healing Europe's fractured social contract - Eurohealth
2025 Eurohealth (31.2)
24 September 2025
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Overview
This special issue of Eurohealth offers a pre-reader for the 2025 European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), a key platform for health policy exchange. The discussions at this year’s EHFG will explore how health can play a central role in renewing the social contract in Europe, strengthening solidarity, trust, and shared responsibility in the face of evolving societal challenges.
Contents include:
- Foreword 31.2
- Guest editorial 31.2
- Rethinking the social contract: Solidarity and innovation go hand in hand
- Investing in women's health research and innovation: A prescription to heal our fractured social contract
- Social, green and arts prescriptions for health: Harnessing the power of community interventions for well-being
- Mental health support during crises: Lessons from the Red Cross response to the conflict in Ukraine
- What people want out of end-of-life care: Is the social contract failing?
- Strengthening EU primary healthcare: Transferring innovative practices supports solidarity in health
- Transforming hospitals for resilient, people-centred health systems
- Transparency of public contributions to drug development
WHO Team
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Reference numbers
ISBN: ISSN 1356–1030
Copyright
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO