ReviewThe Lancet regional health. Europe2024
The path to a European Health Union.
Review in The Lancet regional health. Europe, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- COVID-19 and Interacting Public Health Threats in Europe During 2020-2025: A Narrative Review.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Integrating Drug Repurposing into EU Health Crisis Preparedness: The Strategic Role of Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA).Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Transformative Resilience in European Health Governance After COVID-19: A Policy Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- 20 Years of EU health values (2006-2026): four proposals for the future.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2026Article
- Shaping food system governance: mapping the national food and nutrition legislation landscape across Europe.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- European countries policy responses against SARS-Cov-2 in the context of vaccinations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A narrative literature review to inform the development of a health threats preparedness framework in Ireland.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Solidarity and trust in European Union health governance: three ways forward.The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2024Review
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Abstract
The European Union has historically left health policy decisions to individual member states, cooperating only on issues like cross-border healthcare and medicine safety. However, the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for collective action across borders. In response, in October 2020, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for the creation of a "European Health Union". This initiative aims to enhance the protection of European citizens' health, bolster pandemic preparedness, and strengthen healthcare systems. So far, the initiative has not led to major contestation. This might be because the proposals under this heading have been rather piecemeal and are not generally seen as being part of a comprehensive vision for identifying areas where EU intervention benefit national health policy. In this contribution we propose a path forward in terms of content and process for developing a more comprehensive vision on the policy content and the process. In so doing, we are not debating the need for a European Health Union. We take for granted that the existing European Health Union presents an opportunity to deliver, now and in the future, the added benefit of harmonizing, centralizing, or coordinating health-related laws, institutions, policies and actions at EU level.
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