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Healthcare Access in Rural Border Regions. Realizing Patient Rights Across European Borders

Project description

A closer look at healthcare across European rural and disadvantaged border regions

Inclusive access for every European citizen to timely and affordable healthcare is proposed in the European Pillar of Social Rights. However, specific issues and potential for cooperation in disadvantaged rural border regions are still overlooked. The EU-funded HARBOR project will develop a new analytical framework allowing researchers to bridge insights from the academic literature in comparative, cross-national and multi-scalar health and studies of cross-border interactions and their effects on healthcare in European rural and disadvantaged border areas. Detailed data from four countries (Belgium, France, Norway and Sweden) and EU institutions will allow new, gender-sensitive, comparative insights.

Objective

The fellowship – Healthcare Access in Rural Border Regions. Realizing Patient Rights Across European Borders (HARBOR) – will launch the first cross-national and multi-scalar study of cross-border interactions and their impact on access to healthcare in rural and disadvantaged border areas in Europe. Developing a novel conceptual framework in which borders and cross-border interactions are an integral part of healthcare territories, the project aims to close the gap in regional studies and social policy literature on the provision of health care in European border regions. Building on in-depth data from four countries (Belgium, France, Norway and Sweden) and from the EU institutions, HARBOR will provide new, gender-sensitive, comparative knowledge about how the EU, national, regional and local authorities can ensure quality health care in disadvantaged, rural regions. The project will develop an original analytic framework which will allow scholars to bridge insights from the scholarly literature in comparative health studies and border studies. Access to timely and affordable healthcare is one of the key principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights. The fellowship will produce new knowledge to help make this a reality. The fellowship will identify facilitators of and barriers against cross-border co-operation. The project will additionally make proposals for ways to reconcile territoriality bound social rights and supply planning with cross-border mobility and potential for pooling resource. An experienced researcher (Dr Alban Davesne, France) will collaborate with a centre of gravity for the study of European social policy (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway) and a leading research centre with international expertise on European health policy (secondment at The European Social Observatory, Belgium) for intersectoral knowledge transfer, career development, and European added value.

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2020

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Coordinator

OSLOMET - STORBYUNIVERSITETET
Net EU contribution
€ 214 158,72
Address
PILESTREDET 46
0167 Oslo
Norway
Region
Norge Oslo og Viken Oslo
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 214 158,72