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Health Care and Care for the Elderly



Documents:

** NEW ** COM(2004) 304 final - Modernising social protection for the development of high-quality, accessible and sustainable health care and long-term care: support for the national strategies using the “open method of coordination”(21/04/2004)
Available in pdf format deenfr

Joint Commission/Council Report on supporting national strategies for the future of health care and care for the elderly (10/03/2003)
This report is based on the Member States replies submitted by the Member States in 2002 in reply to a Questionnaire on Health and Long-Term Care for the Elderly. The joint report was endorsed by the Council on 6 March (Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs) and on 7 March (Economic and Financial Affairs) as a contribution to the European Council on 20-21 March 2003.
Available in pdf format deenfr
Proposal by the Commission for a Joint Commission-Council report on Health care and care for the elderly (COM(2002)774 final, 3.1.2003) (Based on the Member States replies to a questionnaire, see below)
available in PDF format in
da de el en es fr fi it nl pt sv
Questionnaire on Health and Long-Term Care for the Elderly, by the Social Protection Committee 2002
available in PDF format in     en en en
The future of health care and care for the elderly: guaranteeing accessibility, quality and financial viability. (Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions; COM (2001) 723 final, 05.12.2001) available in PDF format in da de el en es fr fi it nl pt sv
For earlier and related documents please see also the WebPages :
Social Protection
Ageing Policy

MISSOC - Mutual information system on social protection in the European Union and the EEA
Missoc-Info 03/2002 - Health Care in Europe
Comparative Tables on Social Protection in the Member States and the European Economic Area (01/01/2002)
MISSCEEC - Mutual Information System on Social Protection in the Central and Eastern European Countries - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic and Slovenia MISSCEEC

Studies / Reports

 
European Study of Long Term care Expenditure: (20/06/2003)
A recent LSI study commissioned by E1 investigates the sensitivity of long-term care expenditure in four Member States (Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and Spain), with regard to changes in mortality rates, dependency rates and provision of care. Available in pdf format, only in EN: en
The social protection systems, including health care, in the 13 Candidate Countries (25/3/2003)
The findings from a series of studies on the social protection systems of 13 Candidate Countries
The Final Summary:
  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter 1 : Pensions
  3. Chapter 2 : Health
  4. Chapter 3 : Social Exclusion
  5. Conclusions
The individual country reports. Each report has a section about health care.
Conference on "The modernisation of social protection systems in Candidate Countries", in Brussels 5 - 6 December 2002.
Read the news article.

Voluntary health insurance in the European Union: Study prepared by the European Observatory on Health Care Systems and the London School of Economics. (February 2002) available in PDF format in EN  only

Replies from Member States:

Country Report Annex
Belgium fr
Denmark en
Germany de de
Greece elen
Spain es es
France fr en
Ireland en en
Italy it it
Luxemburg fr
Netherlands nlen en
Austria deen de
Portugal ptfr
Finland en
Sweden en
United Kingdom en


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