This study for the European Parliament Policy Department examines the regulation for a European Health Data Space (EHDS …), proposed by the European Commission in May 2022. The EHDS introduces mandatory rules for electronic health record to facilitate … user access and portability of personal health data (primary use) and pooling of health data for research and policy …

Health outcomes in the European Union are good by international standards, even compared to other developed economies …, and improved continuously before COVID-19. This reflects the alignment of the objectives of improving health and wellbeing … with the overall socio-economic objective of prosperity, and suggests that a radical overhaul of EU health policy is not …

This note examines whether subjective general health in Europe has changed since the onset of the economic crisis …. Subjective general health for Ireland, Spain and Portugal is compared before and after the onset of the recession. Two other … or very good health is also plotted against the change in the unemployment rate over the period 2007-2012. Subjective …

Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We draw on an instrumental variable strategy exploiting individual level information …Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health …

citizens across Europe responded to the next global crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic. We show that increases in individualism and … shaped citizens' responses to public health policies to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic almost 15 years later …