Product Description: Patients’ rights have been formulated in a number of documents and guidelines from various international bodies. Laws and declarations on patients’ rights do not automatically make health care safer, but can help to empower patients...read more

Product Description: This new volume consists of structured case studies summarizing the state of primary care in 31 European countries. It complements the previous study, Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe, which provided an overview of the state of primary care across the continent, including aspects of governance, financing, workforce and details of service profiles...read more

Product Description: Undocumented migrants are people within a country without the necessary documents and permits. They are considered at higher risk for health problems because of their irregular status and the consequences of economic and social marginalization...read more

Product Description: In 2010, the WHO Regional Committee for Europe adopted an ambitious five-year vision of better health in the WHO European Region. The WHO Regional Office for Europe and the 53 countries it serves therefore agreed to follow a roadmap with specific milestones, to enable the Regional Office to respond to the changing European environment and to further strengthen it as an evidence-based center of health policy and public health excellence that could better support the Region’s diverse Member States...read more

Product Description: When sufficient moisture is available, hundreds of species of bacteria and fungi―particularly mold―pollute indoor air. The most important effects of exposure to these pollutants are the increased prevalence of respiratory symptoms, allergies and asthma, as well as disturbance of the immune system...read more

Product Description: A national transport, health and environment action plan (NTHEAP) is a key mechanism for developing sustainable and healthy transport in a country. It provides a comprehensive and intersectoral way to plan and take action on transport, environment and health at the national level...read more

Product Description: En 2010, le Comité régional de l'OMS pour l'Europe a adopté une vision ambitieuse de cinq ans afin d'améliorer la situation sanitaire dans la Région européenne de l'OMS. Le Bureau régional de l'OMS pour l'Europe et les 53 pays qu'il dessert ont donc convenu d'une feuille de route comportant des jalons précis...read more

Product Description: Environmental noise is a threat to public health, having negative impacts on human health and wellbeing. This book reviews the health effects of night time noise exposure, examines dose-effects relations, and presents interim and ultimate guideline values of night noise exposure...read more

Product Description: Im Jahr 2010 nahm das WHO-Regionalkomitee für Europa eine ehrgeizige, auf fünf Jahre angelegte Zukunftsvision für mehr Gesundheit in der Europäischen Region der WHO an. Das WHO-Regionalbüro für Europa und die 53 Länder, in deren Dienst es tätig ist, vereinbarten damals einen Fahrplan mit konkreten Meilensteinen, um dem Regionalbüro eine Reaktion auf die allmähliche Veränderung der Rahmenbedingungen in der Europäischen Region zu ermöglichen und seine Position weiter zu stärken: als ein auf der Grundlage von Evidenz arbeitendes Kompetenzzentrum für Gesundheitspolitik und Fragen der öffentlichen Gesundheit, das den Anforderungen der heterogenen Europäischen Region mit ihren Mitgliedstaaten besser gerecht wird...read more

Product Description: Comme les rapports précédents, le Rapport sur la santé en Europe 2012 décrit à la fois les améliorations générales apportées à la santé dans la Région européenne de l'OMS ainsi que leur répartition inégale entre les pays et dans chacun d'eux...read more

Product Description: Against the background of concern about ministerial responsibility for the health of prisoners in Europe, the members of the WHO European Network on Prison and Health asked the WHO Regional Office for Europe to provide a document on the governance of prison health...read more

Product Description: This volume examines why hospitals collaborate with each other and with other health care actors across borders in Europe. Cross-border hospital collaboration is not a new phenomenon but began to receive increased attention in the first decade of the 21st century in the context of European debates on patient mobility, the impact of European Union (EU) integration on national health systems and the particular situation of border regions...read more

Product Description: This report presents the health status of Europe, providing policy-makers and public health professionals with the epidemiological evidence base that underpins Health 2020, the new European policy framework. It describes the agreed approach to monitoring progress towards Health 2020, outlines the collaborative agenda to address the challenges ahead, and makes the case for measuring well-being as a marker of progress in health...read more

Product Description: In 2012, the WHO Regional Committee for Europe approved Health 2020 in two forms. Health 2020 Policy Framework and Strategy provides more detail than the shorter Health 2020, in terms of evidence and practice. It has two strategic objectives, constructed around equity, gender and human rights and improved governance for health...read more

Product Description: Auf der Tagung des WHO-Regionalkomitees für Europa im September 2012 billigten die 53 Länder der Europäischen Region ein auf Werten und Erkenntnissen basierendes neues gesundheitspolitisches Rahmenkonzept für die Region mit dem Titel Gesundheit 2020 ...read more

Product Description: En septembre 2012, à la session du Comité régional de l OMS pour l Europe, les 53 pays de la Région européenne ont approuvé un nouveau cadre politique pour la Région : Santé 2020. Ce document porte essentiellement sur l amélioration de la santé pour tous et la réduction des inégalités en matière de santé, grâce à une meilleure direction des efforts et de la gouvernance pour la santé...read more

Product Description: For every person over the age of 65 in today's European Union, there are four people of working age; by 2050, there will only be two. Demand for long-term care, of which home care forms a significant part, will inevitably increase in the decades to come...read more

Product Description: Extreme weather events, including floods and droughts, are increasing in frequency and intensity. They affect the operation of water-supply, drainage and sewerage infrastructure, and the functioning of wastewater treatment plants, thereby affecting the protection of public health...read more

Product Description: The European action plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol 2012-2020 was endorsed by all 53 Member States in the WHO European Region in September 2011. It includes a range of evidence-based policy options to reduce the harmful use of alcohol...read more