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The Lisbon Summit highlighted social policy as a core element in Europe's strategy for becoming ‘the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with better jobs and greater social cohesion’ by 2010. This objective defines a series of social policy challenges for the EU. A separate joint report of the Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions addresses several of these key issues, such as social exclusion and poverty, the relationship between quality of life and quality of work, fertility, migration and mobility, satisfaction with quality of life, care and intergenerational solidarity.
This particular report, which provided some of the material for the above study, focuses on the issue of personal health and access to health care.
Examining quality of life in 28 European countries, including the acceding and candidate countries as well as the current Member States of the EU, this report provides, for the first time, an analysis of views and experiences of the citizens of the new Europe on selected aspects of health, such as individual health and lifestyle, access to health care, the health care system, and responsibility for
care in families. The analysis is based on data from the European Commission’s Eurobarometer survey carried out in the acceding and candidate countries in Spring 2002 and standard EU 15 Eurobarometers. This report represents one in a series of reports on quality of life in an enlarging Europe that will be published by the Foundation on the basis of its own survey’s findings in the next few years.
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