European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes AHEAD POLICY BRIEF JUNE 2007 WORK PACKAGE IV ON HEALTH STATUS TRANSITIONS Policy Implications from ENEPRI RESEARCH REPORT NO. 35 HEALTH STATUS TRANSITIONS MARIA M. HOFMARCHER, MONIKA RIEDEL, ALEXANDER SCHNABL AND GERALD SIRLINGER WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MARKUS KRAUS, MARKUS POCK, WOLFGANG SCHWARZBAUER AND DOMINIK WALCH JUNE 2007 AHEAD Policy Briefs present the policy implications of research carried out under the AHEAD project (Ageing, Health Status and the Determinants of Health Expenditure), which was funded for a three-year period by the European Commission under the 6 th Research Framework Programme (contract no. SP21-CT-2003-502641). The research, carried out by a CEPS-led consortium of 18 partner institutes, was organised into nine Work Packages, the results of which have been published in the Research Report series of ENEPRI (European Network of Economic Policy Research Institutes). ENEPRI publications are available for free downloading on the CEPS online bookshop (http://shop.ceps.eu ). A brief description of the AHEAD project and a list of its partner institutes and publications can be found on the last pages of this Policy Brief.