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Public health news from around the WHO European Region.
News highlights
January 2024
Delivering safe, good-quality care leading to high patient satisfaction: the benefits of advancing nursing roles in the Netherlands
03-01-2024
“Nurse practitioners combine nursing with medical skills and knowledge, allowing them to be able to deliver more holistic, integrated care for patients,” explains Inge Rinzema, who is among the more than 5000 nurse practitioners in the Netherlands and Chair of the Dutch Professional Association for Nursing Specialists (V&VN VS). Inge has been caring for older adults since 2014, mainly in a nursing home in the city of Groningen but also through home visits to those too infirm to visit a health-care centre. She provides consultancy to local general practitioners as well. Over the years, Inge has noticed that the needs of her patients have changed considerably, reflecting how our populations are ageing.
Global high-level technical meeting on noncommunicable diseases in humanitarian settings: building resilient health systems, leaving no-one behind
27 – 29 February 2024
Copenhagen, Denmark
The meeting will serve as an opportunity to move forward dialogue on how best to support Member States in delivering NCD prevention and control services as part of humanitarian responses. Outputs will feed into recommendations made as part of the 2024 progress report to the UN Secretary-General and will inform plans for the Fourth UN High-level meeting on NCDs which will take place in 2025.
TÜRKIYE AND SYRIA EARTHQUAKES
A “positive ripple effect”: health workers as influencers following Türkiye’s
earthquakes
19-12-2023
COVID-19
Respiratory infectious diseases on the rise across WHO European Region
15-12-2023
Increasing Recognition, Research and Rehabilitation for Post COVID-19 Condition (long COVID)
WHO remains committed to learning more about long COVID and to finding ways to improve the medium- and long-term outcomes for people affected by it.
Partnering with the European Union to support deployment of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination
The EU and WHO/Europe together provide critical assistance to Member States of the WHO European Region to ensure local readiness for safe and effective vaccination campaigns against COVID-19
Publications and technical guidance
Publications, country and technical guidance for the COVID-19 outbreak
UKRAINE EMERGENCY
Listening and learning: streamlining nursing development in Ukraine amid the war
04-01-2024
On the move for health: defending Ukraine against vaccine-preventable diseases
21-12-2023
WHO and partners enhancing Ukraine's emergency response capacity
15-12-2023
03-01-2024
The WHO regional offices for Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean have embarked on a joint initiative to improve the skills of health-care professionals who care for women survivors of physical and/or sexual violence. Women and girls globally face different forms of violence, including domestic abuse, rape, sexual violence, emotional/psychological abuse, and trafficking. Such violence is rooted in gender inequalities and discrimination within societal structures. Health-care professionals are often the first responders to violence against women and are frequently asked to meet the immediate emotional/psychological and physical health needs, and ongoing safety, support, and mental health needs, of women survivors.
Enhancing health systems capacities in the WHO European Region
03-01-2024
WHO launches an innovative virtual reality training tool on ship sanitation inspection
03-01-2024
Milestone forum plays role in evolution of RCCE-IM in European Region
15-12-2023
A 30-fold rise of measles cases in 2023 in the WHO European Region warrants urgent action
14-12-2023
New WHO tools to support action on noncommunicable diseases and climate change
11-12-2023
12-12-2023
It is a common perception that the world today is less safe, more unequal, more partisan and driven by unaccountable business interests than in the past. Growing dissatisfaction with the traditional political systems and with institutions, magnified by disinformation is a threat to the very fabric of our societies. This is why we have designed this conference in a new way: engaging the health and care workforce, policy-makers and patients in producing the evidence base, as well as participating here today.
19-12-2023
In the 1970s, Trieste forever changed mental health care in Italy by closing its mental hospital and shifting to a community-based care model, fully centred on its users. Within a few years, the rest of Italy followed. The city continued this history of innovation by hosting, on 17–19 October, the first-ever study visit of representatives from 4 central Asian countries, eager to learn the secrets to its success in mental health reform and what it would take to put these into practice in their respective contexts. Read the full article
WHO updates CLIMAQ-H tool to support countries in boosting health gains from climate action
27-12-2023
Kyrgyzstan confirms achievement of hepatitis B control targets
21-12-2023
On the frontline of the fight against HIV: Ukraine's resilience and WHO's support
19-12-2023
Women are at higher risk of digital health exclusion in Sweden, new data shows
11-12-2023
Strengthening rapid response amid emergencies in the Western Balkans
06-12-2023
EVENTS
Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural and Cultural Insights gathers in Copenhagen
8 – 9 February 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark
Summer school: Systems thinking and innovation for the prevention of noncommunicable diseases and a healthy ageing population in the WHO European Region
16 – 19 July 2024, Nice, France
15th conference of the European network for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA Europe)
19 – 21 August 2024, Dublin, Ireland
