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EAPC
membership -
Some numbers
The
EAPC was founded in December 1988, by 42 founding
members from nine European countries. In its first
years, the EAPC offered only individual membership, which
increased steadily with an ever higher number of new subscriptions
each year following the EAPC Congresses.
The rapid development of the palliative care movement and
the growth of national associations in the European countries
made a change in the EAPC's structure necessary to enable
these associations to join the EAPC collectively. This decision
was a big step forward in the development of the membership.
In
1992, the EAPC accepted 3 associations as its first
collective members increasing the number of persons represented
to 1028 persons.
By
End 1996 the EAPC counted 12 associations collective
members of with 8,312
persons, and 481 individual members.
End
of 2001 the EAPC represented with its 25 associations
collective members over 25,000 persons.
End
of 2002 the number of associations has increased
to 28 representing a total of approximately 50000
persons, and there are 200 individual members.
The members come from 24 European countries and 9 Countries
from outside Europe
2003 the number of associations was 29.
2004
the number of associations has increased to 30 (with two
further requests pending).
Even
though the EAPC is a European association, it has members
from many non-European countries. |
