The EU promotes investing in health as a broader means of achieving smart sustainable and inclusive growth. This takes the form of: Promoting effective, accessible and resilient health systems Investing in health through disease prevention and health promotion Fostering health coverage as a way of reducing inequalities and tackling social exclusion.





Cross border healthcare

The EU promotes citizens' health and helps improve health systems through appropriate legislation, by discussing with national legislators and by disseminating guidelines. In addition, it coordinates interventions to protect health when there are common threats to be defeated.

European Reference Network

eHealth: Digital Health & Care

The EU actively promotes the use of information and telecommunication technologies for digital health and care to improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and management of health-related problems and to monitor and managing lifestyle habits that impact health. Digital health and care improve the quality of health care and the efficiency of the health sector.

Health technology assessment