Full Description
This work is based on a report prepared for the European Commission. It provides a survey of the main determinants of current health status in the European Union, the organization of health services and the issues that Member States have to address in framing policies for the future.
Contents
Chapter 1 Challenges to health. Chapter 2 The health care context. Chapter 3 Cost containment and health care reforms. Chapter 4 Outcomes management and technology assessment. Chapter 5 Establishing priorities in practice. Chapter 6 Systematic approaches to establishing priorities. Chapter 7 Preventive interventions and health promotion. Chapter 8 Migrants and ethnic minorities. Chapter 9 Proposals for the future role of the Community. Annexes: official priorities of Member States; recommendations on the role of community Institutions.
