(A287) Who Regional Office for Europe - Health Systems Crisis Preparedness Assessment Tool

Who Regional Office for Europe

The Meeting, convened to finalize the text of the document, was attended by representatives of professional associations and societies concerned with general practice/family medicine, representatives of the medical and nursing professions as a whole, and experts who had contributed to the preparation of the draft Charter. The Meeting discussed the concepts and intentions of the document, the re...

Regional Office for Europe

Regional Office for Europe

The participants agreed that health and environment information systems, on both national and subnational levels, are useful tools for the systemic collection, analysis and interpretation of health and environmental data. The development of a national health and environment report and the setting of priorities in the national environment and health action plan should be based on the analytical ...

Regional Office for Europe

The links between urban planning and health are many and varied. Environmental, social and economic conditions in cities can have both positive and negative influences on human health and centre. Urban planning and related professions play an important role in shaping those conditions. Healthy Cities and the City Planning process is a background paper supporting the developmental work of the WH...

Regional Office for Europe

Many of the countries of central and eastern Europe (CCEE) and newly independent states (NIS) remain vulnerable to the resumption of the local transmission of malaria. In recent years, autochthonous cases have been reported in Belarus, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and the Republic of Moldova. The WHO Regional Office for Europe convened a meeting to review both imported malaria and local transmission...