European Integration and Health Policy: The Artful Dance of Economics and History

The impact of European integration on diverse national social policies is still largely unknown.

While policy decision making remains at the country level, there is a strong possiblity that indirectly, as a result of ideological imperatives and financial constraints, policies will change.

National health policy is a case in point. This volume explores the current and probable effect of European integration on health care protection.

Will it tend to encourage all European member states to provide equitable and universal access to quality care? Or is the European integration process likely to lead to the social exclusion of some.