HIE Meeting Place Announce index

4^th European Health Forum Gastein 2001: Integrating Health across Policies

26–29 September 2001, Bad Gastein, Salzburg, Austria

Programme announcement

Plenary sessions

• Global influences on health and health services
• Macroeconomic policy and health
• The contribution of the health services sector
• Progress in promoting and protecting health across EU policies
• National and regional experiences
• Health impact assessment in Europe
• The WHO Investment for Health project

Parallel forum session I: health across policies and sectors

• Bridging the gap from policy to practice and awareness
• The Challenge at national and regional level: the Swedish and Welsh experience
• Measuring progress and impact 

Parallel forum session II: World trade and globalisation –- forces for good health or bad?

• Health and globalisation
• The interface of European Union policy with the wider Europe and global issues
• The World Trade Organization and health — GATT/GATS
• Trade-related intellectual property rights

Parallel forum session III: health in the single European market

• Research into aspects of the single European market and health:
  • free movement of individuals
  • free movement of goods
  • free movement of services
• Scenarios on likely futures on the single European market and health
• Response/debate on the impact of these future scenarios in the context of EU health policy

• Common Agricultural Policy reforms — health considerations and opportunities for transformation
• Case studies at local, national, and EU level
• Roundtable: re-assessing CAP using health considerations

Parallel forum session V: health in the Information Age

Va: The informed patient/citizen

• The activities of the EU in relation to citizens participation in health policy development and implementation
• Citizens and patients needs for information
• Involvement in decision-making processes: experiences from NGO partnerships
• Panel discussion: how to make the citizens and patients voice heard in the political arena? 

Vb: Health technology and policy formulation

• Visions of ehealth — revisited
• Cross-border provision and service quality
• Case studies
• Legal aspects of ehealth
• Progress in defining and assessing best practice
• eHealth: implications for people empowerment

 Special interest sessions:

• to be announced

For further information please contact:

International Forum Gastein (IFG)
Tauernplatz 1
A-5630 Bad Hofgastein
Austria
Tel: +43 6432 711070
Fax: +43 6432 711071
Email: info@ehfg.org
Internet: http://www.ehfg.org/