Europe stands up for health--strategies and action plans responding to the challenges facing health in the region today. The 61st session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, Baku, Azerbaijan, September 12-15, 2011.

摘要

Public health is once again emerging into the spotlight. Health ministers and high level delegates from across the European Region recently endorsed five new action plans to combat the heaviest disease burden, all of which focus on prevention; they also debated the new European health policy which is under development, Health 2020. Health 2020 emphasizes protecting human health as a human right, investing in health promotion and prevention of disease. It stresses universal access and equity and framing health as a matter for the whole of government, not just the health sector. And it is bringing back public health as a key priority.