Towards Common European Health Policies: What are the Implications for the Nordic Countries?

Paula Blomqvist and Jakob Larsson 2009

This paper reviews the contents of emerging EU policies in the area of health and discusses their implications for the Nordic health care systems. A central question is whether any coherent, common European policy may be discerned and, if so, how it will affect health care systems of the Nordic type, which are tax-based and universalistic in orientation.

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This paper reviews the contents of emerging EU policies in the area of health and discusses their implications for the Nordic health care systems. A central question is whether any coherent, common European policy may be discerned and, if so, how it will affect health care systems of the Nordic type, which are tax-based and universalistic in orientation.

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