For some time already, Europe has been engaged in quite a number of cross-border projects in the health care sector. As stated by the European Commission in its April 2004 communication on patient mobility and the development of health care, these projects as well as their experiences are still fairly unknown. This finding gave rise to the project “Evaluation of Cross-Border Regions in the European Union (EUREGIO)”.

The ambition of the “EUREGIO” project is to give an overview of cross-border activities, identify good practice models and to encourage the exchange of experiences and information between health care actors. The project will run for 36 months (06/2004 – 05/2007).

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Evaluation of Border Regions in the European Union (EUREGIO).
Final Report May 2008, Bielefeld
Hrsg.: Landesinstitut für Gesundheit und Arbeit NRW
Düsseldorf: Landesinstitut für Gesundheit und Arbeit NRW. 2008. 162 S.
(LIGA.Focus 1)
ISBN 978-3-88139-153-5

Brand, H.; Hollederer, A.; Wolf, U., Brand, A. (2008). Cross-border health activities in the Euregios: Good practice for better health. Journal Health Policy 86 (2008) 245–254
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EUREGIO Final Report (May, 2007)

Final Conference of the “EUREGIO” Project on 6 March 2007 in Düsseldorf, Germany
” Cross-Border Activities – Good Practice for Better Health“

Presentation of the EUREGIO-Project (Meeting of the Health Systems Working Party, Dec. 5th 2006)

The documentation of the workshop „Cross-border activities – good practice for better health” (January 20/21, 2006) is now available as a PDF file:
Part 1 (text, 2 MB) Part 2 (posters, 7 MB)

You can find descriptions of about 100 cross-border projects in health in our
Portal “ Cross-Border Activities for Better Health – Learning from Each Other”.

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