Health policy and European Union enlargement / edited by Martin McKee, Laura MacLehose and Ellen Nolte
Imprint
Maidenhead, England : Open University Press, c2004
Descript
xiv, 294 p. : ill ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Health and enlargement -- Process of enlargement -- Health status and trends in candidate countries -- Health and health care in the candidate countries to the European Union: common challenges, different circumstances, diverse policies -- Investing in health for accession -- Integration of East Germany into the EU: investment and health outcomes -- Market for physicians -- Free movement of patients -- Free trade versus the protection of health: the examples of alcohol and tobacco -- European pharmaceutical policy and implications for current member states and candidate countries -- Looking beyond the new borders: stability pact countries of south-east Europe and accession and health