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Key documents

Project documents:

Urb Health project leaflet: Italian (English,Hungarian, Slovak and French translations will be available soon)

Executive Summaries: English, Italian , French (Hungarian and  Slovak translations will be available soon)

Final Project Report (available in English only)

European Commission:

• A European Environment and Health Strategy - COM (2003) 338, 11 June 2003: http://europa.eu.int/comm/press_room/presspacks/health/pp_health_en.htm
  
• Enabling good health for all - A reflection process for a new EU health strategy , David Byrne, July 2004:http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_overview/strategy/reflection_process_en.htm
  
• Towards a thematic strategy on the urban environment - COM (2004) 60, 11 February 2004: http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/urban/thematic_strategy.htm
  
• Report of the High Level Group on the future of social policy in an enlarged European Union, DG Employment and Social Affairs, May 2004:http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2004/jun/hlg_social_elarg_en.html
  
• Indicateurs de santé de la Communauté européenne (ECHI)
  
• European Community Health Indicators (ECHI): Member state health policy issues (20 juin 2005)
• Commission: The contribution of health to the economy in the European Union (23 août 2005)
  
• Commission: Livre vert : Promouvoir une alimentation saine et l'activité physique : une dimension européenne pour la prévention des surcharges pondérales, de l'obésité et des maladies chroniques (8 décembre 2005)
  
• Commission: Livre vert : Améliorer la santé mentale de la population : Vers une stratégie sur la santé mentale pour l'Union européenne. (14 octobre 2005)
  
• Commission: Reflection process on EU health policy Stakeholder contributions and the final report
  
• Communiqué de presse de la Commission: Dynamiser l'économie en améliorant la santé: le Commissaire Byrne lance un processus de réflexion sur l'avenir de la politique européenne de la santé (15 juillet 2004)
  
• Economic Policy Committee: Budgetary challenges posed by ageing populations: the impact on public spending on pensions, health and long-term care for the elderly and possible indicators of the long-term sustainability of public finances (24 octobre 2001)
  
• Commission: Eurobarometers about Public Health issues

Gouvernement

• Autriche : Federal Ministry of Health and Women
• Belgique : Ministère fédéral de la Santé Publique
• République tchèque : Ministry of Health: Proposed Healthcare Policy for 2005 - 2009
• Estonie : Ministry of Health and Social Affairs: Public health
• Finlande : Ministry of Social Affairs and Health - Healthcare policy
• France: Les comptes nationaux de la santé en 2004 (juillet 2005)
• Allemagne : Ministry of Health: German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt on Health Policy and Health Economics in Germany
• Hongrie : Ministry of Health: Health Situation in Hungary
• Irlande : Department of Health and Children: health information
• Italie : Ministry of Health: Investment in health
• Lettonie : Ministry of Health: Public Health Strategy
• Pays-Bas : Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
• Pologne : Ministry of Health: Polish health care system
• Slovénie : Ministry of Health: Public health
• Espagne : Ministry of Health and Consumption: Public health
• Suède : Ministry of Health and Social Affairs: Health and medical care in Sweden (juin 2005)
• Royaume-Uni : Economics and finance ministry: Securing Good Health for the Whole Population (25 février 2004)
• Royaume-Uni : Department of Health
• Etats-Unis, Food and Drug Administration: Links page to World's International Organisations and Foreign Government Agencies in the field of Health

Organisations internationales

• Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) : Rapport sur la santé dans le monde
• Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) : Commission on Macroeconomics and Health
• Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) : Macroeconomics and Health
• Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) : Macroeconomics and health: an update (avril 2004)
• OCDE : Santé et économie - Une relation vitale (juillet 2004)
• 6th European Health Forum Gastein congress report: Health & Wealth economic and social dimensions of health (1-4 octobre 2003)
• Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) - Pan American Health Organisation Background documents and presentations of a "Senior Policy Seminar on Health, Human Capital and Economic Growth: Theory, Evidence and Policies" (3 - 4 octobre 2002)
• Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) : The European Health Report 2002 - The burden of ill health (2003)
• Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) : Commission on Macroeconomics and Health Macroeconomics and Health: Investing in health for economic development (décembre 2001)

Federations

• Eucomed, communiqué de presse: Health is a driver of economic growth (9 mars 2006)
• Pfizer: Pfizer and the Future of Health in Europe [PDF]
• Pfizer: Pfizer Response to the Reflection Process for a New EU Health Strategy:Enabling Good Health for All
• European Generic Medicines Association (EGA): The Economics of Generics
• European Generic Medicines Association (EGA): Healthcare Markets
• The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) manifesto: Medicines for the health and wealth of Europe (décembre 2005)
• The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA): Disease burden in Europe
• European Healthy Ageing Advocacy Forum, communiqué de presse : Will Europe's Health Systems Survive the Ageing Societies? (9 mars 2006)
• The European Healthy Ageing Advocacy Forum [media backgrounder]

ONG et Centres ' études

• European Society of Cardiology, communiqué de presse : European Union' s € 169 billion bill for cardiovascular disease (22 février 2006)
• European Public Health Alliance (EPHA): February 2006 edition of the EPHA Newsletter (février 2006)
• European Public Health Alliance (EPHA): EPHA response to the European Commission's Paper: Enabling Good Health for all: A reflection process for a new EU Health Strategy (2004)
• Oxford Health Alliance working group: Economic consequences of chronic diseases and the economic rationale for public and private intervention ( 21 octobre 2005)
• European Heart Network and the British Heart Foundation: 2005 report on European Cardiovascular Disease statistics
• CEPS - The Centre for European Policy Studies: A European Bargain: Investing in CEEC Health (septembre 2001)
• MIT press release: Health and Economic Growth - Findings and Policy Implications ( August 2005)
• Universitat de Barcelona - Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials: Working papers in economics: Healthy, Educated and Wealthy: Is the Welfare State Really Harmful for Growth? (2005)
• Finance and Development: Health, Wealth, and Welfare (mars 2004)
• The review of Economic Performance and Social Progress: The Impact of Health on Productivity: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications (2002)
• Brown University: Health, human capital ad economic growth: a Schumpeterian perspective (9 février 2005)
• International Health Economics Association
• Garland L. Brinkley Ph.D., MPH: The Macroeconomic Impact of Improving Health: Investigating the Causal Direction (2001)
• Institut Thomas More: The evolution of cross-frontier healthcare coverage in Europe (3 Mars 2004)

World Health Organisation

Healthy Cities and Urban Governance: http://www.euro.who.int/healthy-cities

Mental Health Action Plan for Europe - Facing the Challenges, Building Solutions, WHO European Ministerial Conference on Mental Health, Helsinki,

Finland , 12-15 January 2005: http://www.euro.who.int