EU health policy – no end of life care
The EU has published a strategy for global health policy, with focus on maternal and child care, responding to climate change and talking about support for issues such as malaria prevention. Obviously major problems of ill-health and health inequalities remain. Buit this is very much a policy about achieving the Millennium Development Goals, and ignores that element of health and social care which is about care, not just about widespread changes will prevent or treat diease, which tend to focsu on the young. Inequalities affecting older peopleand dying people because they are not our future are ageist and in the end uncaring.
On the web: http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/files/europa_only/EU_role_global_health_issue_paper_en.pdf