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Health Systems Governance in Europe: the role of EU law and policy
Edited by
- Elias Mossialos
Brian Abel-Smith Professor of Health Policy, and Director, LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science and Co-Director, European Observatory on Health Systems and
Policies
- Govin Permanand
Programme Manager, Health Evidence Network, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe and Visiting Research Fellow, LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Rita Baeten
Senior Policy Analyst, Observatoire Social Européen (European Social Observatory)
- Tamara Hervey
Professor of Law and Convenor of the Centre for the Study of Law in Society, University of Sheffield
| Commentators
increasingly have highlighted that there is a dissonance
in the European approach to health policy. Within the
European Union, the Treaties stipulate healthcare as an
area of exclusive Member State authority, but issues
pertaining to healthcare financing, delivery and
provision are affected by other elements of EU policy,
particularly via the Single European Market. These
impacts have resulted in a growing role for the European
Court of Justice in setting precedents, and in turn,
have fed into a tension with the social solidarity
values that underpin many national healthcare systems. |
What
and where are these impacts? What are the emergent
tensions? And what are the results for national
policy-makers in Europe and their responses? These are
among the questions addressed in this volume. In
analysing key thematic and sector issues, and drawing on
policy and legal expertise, the book provides not only a
comprehensive and topical overview, but a
multidisciplinary analysis of developments related to EU
law and policies that have an impact on national
healthcare systems within Europe. |
A co-publication by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Polices and the Observatoire social
européen (OSE), Brussels.
Published by Cambridge University Press in 2010.
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info on the Cambridge University Press Website
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Euro Observer
The Health Policy Bulletin of the European Observatory on
Health Systems and Policies
Autumn 2008, Volume 10, Number 3
A special issue of Euro Observer presents executive
summaries of a selection of
topics analysed in the book.
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