The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) 2024 gathered over 1500 participants to discuss the transformative impact of democracy, demographic shifts, and digitalisation on Europe’s health systems.
In this interview, we spoke to Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat from the WHO Regional Office for Europe about why democracies are good for our health, what should be done to counteract the “infodemic”, and why trust in health systems is essential.
Health-harming products cause illness, suffering and death among many people. Better regulation is needed for production and sales.
Social scientist Barbara Prainsack explains in an interview why we should use data for the good of society as a whole, and what form this should take.
Data and facts from studies and evaluations on demographic change, on the state of democracies around the world, on “healthy buildings” and also on doctors and nurses in the OECD countries.
Demographic change is making it increasingly difficult to hire employees, particularly in the care and health sector. To counteract this, we need to make workplaces more attractive.
Citizen participation in decision-making that relates to a country’s health system can help to improve it – as long as the process is genuine and the findings are taken seriously.
Vesna Kerstin Petrič from the Slovenian Ministry of Health talks about how social participation should be used above all to reach vulnerable groups and to include them so health services can be shaped better to their needs.
A European Union project in Austria, Belgium and Slovenia aims to strengthen the capacities of Member States for accessing EU funding that could be used to support health system reforms.
A profile of Josep Figueras, who has served as Director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and […]