EU health law

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This chapter examines the ‘transversal’ EU law on health. Specifically, it discusses the law governing patient mobility; health care professionals; health care institutions; medical devices and pharmaceuticals; blood, organs, and human tissue; and public health. EU health law provides an excellent case study of important questions for EU lawyers, such as the appropriate balance between the ‘economic’ and the ‘social’; when public health justifies limiting free movement; and whether EU law pushes health care systems towards a focus on individual autonomy and away from a national welfare system model. EU health law also raises constitutional issues, such as whether these questions should be determined by litigation or legislation; whose interests should be represented in decision-making processes; and at what level (regional, national, EU, or even global) decisions should be taken.

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