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Finland's journey to a welfare state has been long, from a very modest start. The history of modern medicine in Finland can be considered to have begun at 1640 when the first university of Finland, The Royal Academy of Turku, was established. At the time Finland was a part of the Swedish Empire. As the field of medicine did not enjoy very high ...
In Finland, it is required that employers offer healthcare services to their workers. [5] Organised and comprehensive disease prevention and health promotion is one of the key factors for a well-functioning system and the health outcomes are good. Finland has high-quality specialised medical care, which is usually provided at hospitals.
Many concepts of modern hospital medicine are considered products of social and political change of the French Revolution, arising in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Medical reform was a contentious topic of the revolutionary movement, as the French medical system met neither the needs of the population nor its practitioners.
In its 2000 assessment of world health systems, the World Health Organization found that France provided the "best overall health care" in the world. [132] In 2005, France spent 11.2% of GDP on health care, or US$3,926 per capita. Of that, approximately 80% was government expenditure. [64]
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Faculty of Medicine, Université libre de Bruxelles – Brussels (1834) [6] Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel – Brussels (1834) [7] Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp – Antwerp (1972) [8] Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University – Hasselt (1971) [9]
The European Union has no major administrative or legal responsibility in the field of healthcare. The European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Consumers however seeks to align national laws on the safety of food and other products, on consumers' rights, and on the protection of people's health, to formulate new EU wide laws and thus strengthen its internal markets.