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<strong>Everything</strong> <strong>you</strong> <strong>always</strong> <strong>wanted</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>know</strong> <strong>about</strong> <strong>European</strong> <strong>Union</strong> <strong>health</strong> <strong>policies</strong><br />

process that can vary quite substantially and puts in doubt how far it is actually<br />

possible for the <strong>European</strong> Commission <strong>to</strong> <strong>know</strong> the impact of proposals that<br />

have such national variability built in by design.<br />

Nevertheless, this process of understanding the effects of other <strong>policies</strong> on<br />

<strong>health</strong> is a vital one, as the impact of other areas of <strong>European</strong> action on <strong>health</strong><br />

is in many ways larger than the impact of the EU’s actions that have <strong>health</strong> as a<br />

specific objective. It is <strong>to</strong> these other impacts that we now turn.

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