Health and Demography
EU-Links
All information on the EU's efforts to promote public health.Navigate to 'EU in the world' (in first block) or 'international activities' (under 'pharmaceuticals') to view the external aspects of health policy.
Information on international co-operation on health. With a focus on the South-eastern Europe Health Network, the European Neighbourhood Policy, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, the Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being and the Health Programme 2008 - 2013.
Also on the co-operation with International Organisations like the WHO, the Council of Europe and the OECD.
Navigate to 'key documents' in the left sidebar to find relevant documents concerning enlargement, international organisations, regional cooperation and eu in hte world.
Go to 'global health' to find documents on the role of the EU in global health, namely i.a. the 'Communication on Global Health'.
The programme of the EU on health where Organisations from the EU countries, the EEA (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), countries, European Neighbourhood countries and Western Balkan countries are all entitled to participate in, according to their specific agreements with the EU.
Provides information on the international co-operation in the domain of drugs: latests developments, general context, international agreements, programmes, etc.
Here you can find an overview on the EU's policy on drugs including strategies, international cooperation and drugs routes.
Available meeting documents of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).
Links
The Demographic Yearbook disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce on an annual basis. Demographic Yearbook special topics issues cover a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing, ethnicity and language, etc.
Conducts research on the social implications of European integration. (Focus on work and healthcare.)
Published monthly
Provides charts, statistics and reports on population, migration and urbanization
"The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies supports and
promotes evidence-based health policy-making through comprehensive and
rigorous analysis of the dynamics of health care systems in Europe."
Literature
Fidler, D. P. (2001) 'The globalization of public health: the first 100 years of international health diplomacy', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 79(9).
Solana, J. (2006) 'The Health Dimension to Security'. In A. Mellbourn (Ed.), Health and Conflict Prevention. Hedemora: Gidlund,
Owen, J. W. (2006) 'Rise of Health as a Foreign Policy Issue: The European Perspective'. In A. Mellbourn (Ed.), Health and Conflict Prevention. Hedemora: Gidlund,
McInnes, C., & Lee, K. (2006) 'Health, security and foreign policy', Review of International Studies, 32, 5-23.
Katz, R., & Singer, D. A. (2007) 'Health and security in foreign policy', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 85(3).
Fidler, D. P. (2007) 'Reflections on the revolution in health and foreign policy', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 85(3).
Kelley, L., Ingram, A., Lock, K., & McInnes, C. (2007) 'Bridging health and foreign policy: the role of health impact assessments', Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 85(3).
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