Strengthening Health System Governance

Strengthening health system governance-1

Edited by Scott L. Greer Matthias Wismar Josep Figueras 2016 Health is a political choice, and both good health governance and good governance for health require governments to continuously make important and sometimes difficult choices, choices that may have consequences on access to health services, the quality of health care and on financial hardship for those using the services.

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Socio-environmentally determined health inequities among children and adolescents

Socio-environmentally determined health inequities among children and adolescents-1

Editors: Alex Mathieson, Leda Nemer 2010 At the Fourth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, held in June 2004 in Budapest, Hungary, Member States of the WHO European Region made a commitment to implementing national-level actions to ensure a better future for the children of the WHO European Region by means of the Children’s Environment and Health […]

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Social determinants of health and well-being among young people

Social determinants of health and well-being among young people

Edited by: Candace Currie Cara Zanotti Antony Morgan Dorothy Currie 2012 The Health Behaviour of School-aged Children (HBSC) study provides key insights into the health-related behaviours of young people. Its unique methodology has facilitated engagement with hundreds of thousands of young people in many parts of the world since its inception in 1983, building a data base […]

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Situation of child and adolescent health in Europe

Situation of child and adolescent health in Europe-1

World Health Organization 2018 The adoption of the European strategy, Investing in children: the child and adolescent health strategy 2015–2020, by the WHO Regional Committee for Europe in 2014 was a step toward providing guidance to countries on how to address and prioritize health issues in Europe. Wisely, countries requested to be updated on progress. With this report, […]

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