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Below it is pointed out the recommendations that the EU has launched. We enclose a summary of the part related with Health.
PRESS RELEASE, Session n. 2586 of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs, Luxembourg, 1 and 2 June, 2004.
- More mobility, information on other treatment options consider possibilities of having treatments in other EU member states
- Access to the right information: prices, treatment costs, healthcare quality...
- ICT allows the diffusion of the health information. Health is a leader subject in Internet.
- Healthcare services to be marketed and delivered 'cross border'.
- Bigger cooperation promotion: planning, supplying and follow-up of healthcare services effectively and secure.
- European Health Card will make easy the mobility within EU.
- Cross border healthcare projects, network development.
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It has become relevant the mobility of European citizens becoming bigger, since the adoption of the Euro as unique currency .The EU is promoting with several measures and reports, the integration and harmonization of all EU countries.
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The ‘European Health Insurance Card’ EHIC is a reality in force for travelling within the EU.
One of the main objectives is to help the employment mobility and another one that interests and concerns the EU is the healthcare that this mobility creates, also including the so called ‘Health and Tourism’.
The offer of services to propose is in the frame of the tourism sector. For this reason we introduce some details about Spain. The incoming tourists figure has grown up to 14,1 million people, a 36% in 7 years: |
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TOURISTS IN SPAIN |
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2004 |
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53,6 millons |
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92% of the above figure are tourists coming from the European Union, and this fact facilitates the negotiation of agreements following the EU guidelines about mobility of european citizens within the EU. |
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The number of homes owned by people from abroad in Spain is reaching 5 million homes. This represents that 11,5 million people that visited Spain during 2004 were accommodated in this type of accommodation with an increment from the previous year of 13 %. |
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The latest years, Spain has changed its tourism offer not only by proposing 'sun & beach' but also evoluting to more selective models.
SOURCE: Instituto Nacional de Estadística - Spain |
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