[Public health in the central and eastern European countries]

During the last two decades, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been transforming their health systems and built an intermediate model between market and socialised economies. At the same time, they have been trying to establish a system of observed in public health between the countries of the European Union and those of Central and Eastern Europe widened in the last decade. In view of accessing the European Union, this article develops the different points in a context where public health represents a topic of extreme importance for the European Commission.