This issue of Eurohealth is dedicated to the 2013 European Health Forum Gastein. The articles specifically focus on the theme of the 2013 conference “Building resilient and innovative health systems for Europe”, and will give readers an insight into some of the topics addressed in the various conference sessions.  David […]

EHFG 2013 Opening plenary By Paul Giepmans, Indre Laurinciukaite, Martina Naschberger and Elena Nicod Helmut Brand, President of the International Forum  Gastein, opened the Forum with a warm welcome to all  participants and introduced the main theme of the 16th edition of the European Health Forum Gastein, entitled  “Resilient and […]

By Bartolomeo Sammartino and Francesco Cappello Euro-Mediterranean Institute of Science and Technology, Palermo, Italy visit the Website LiSS is a multidisciplinary Journal that addresses the topics cited above from different points of view. It is expected that the papers submitted to the Journal will be written by a wide range […]

14.  bis 15. Juni 2013, Nürnberg, Deutschland Im deutschsprachigen Raum leben mehrere Millionen Menschen, die aus den Ländern der ehemaligen Sowjetunion stammen. Ihr Alltag spannt sich zwischen zwei Kulturen, Sprachen und Lebensweisen – eine Aufgabe, die jedem vieles abverlangt, aber nicht jedem gleich gut gelingt. Viele fühlen sich mit dieser […]

By Sonja Novak-Zezula und Ursula Karl-Trummer A majority of European countries restricts access to health care for irregular migrants to emergency care. Spain, being a country with a long history of universal and equitable access for everybody on the territory, just recently (2012) changed from an open access model to […]

by Bartolomeo Sammartina, Francesco Cappello, Everly Conway de Macarioand Alberto Macario. Prof. Bartolomeo Sammartina,Istituto Euro-Mediterraneo di Scienza e Tecnologia The Istituto Euro-Mediterraneo di Scienza e Tecnologia (IEMEST) or, in English, Euro-Mediterraean Institute of Science and Technology was established in 2009 in Palermo, Sicily (Italy), which is centrally located in the […]