Health Policy

Conferences of European Ministers of Health


 
The Council of Europe regularly organises Conferences of European Ministers responsible for Health Affairs. Their objective is to examine the main problems and challenges affecting the organisation’s member states in the health field and to facilitate direct contacts between the ministers.

Seven ministerial conferences have been held to date. The 8th Conference of European Health Ministers "People on the move: Human rights and challenges to health systems" will take place on 22-23 November 2007 in Bratislava, Slovak Republic:

The Seventh Conference on "Health, Dignity and Human Rights - the role and responsibility of Health Ministers" was held in Oslo on 12-13 June 2003. The aim of the Conference was to highlight the human rights dimension of health care. In their final declaration, the European Health Ministers called on the Council of Europe and the European Health Committee to intensify its work on the social, ethical and human rights dimension of health in the delivery and availability of evidence-based health care and related services.

 

Programme of the Conference

List of documents

Declaration of the Conference


 



Previous Ministerial Conferences
2003 "Health, Dignity and Human Rights" - Oslo, Norway
1999 "Ageing in the 21st Century:  The need for a balanced approach towards healthy ageing" - Athens, Greece
1996 "Equity and Patients' Rights in the context of health reforms" - Warsaw, Poland

8th Conference of European Health Ministers "People on the move: Human rights and challenges to health systems"
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