World Health Organization 2010 The burden of tobacco across the WHO European Region is tremendous, and it is a powerful factor in health disparities among socioeconomic groups and gender. World Bank studies of household disposable income estimate that approximately 10% of income in the poorest households containing at least one smoker goes to tobacco – money that is […]

World Health Organization 2005 WHO European Region strategic plan 2005–2010  

Edited by Anna Maresso Philipa Mladovsky Sarah Thomson Anna Sagan 2015 This book maps health policy responses to the financial and economic crisis in Europe by country so that policy-makers, researchers and others have access to information about national contexts of particular interest to them. In a separate book we draw on this information to analyse the impact […]

Edited by M.N.G. Dukes F.M. Haaijer-Ruskamp C.P. de Joncheere A.H. Rietveld 2003

Edited by Reinhard Busse, Alexander Geissler, Wilm Quentin, Miriam Wiley 2011 This book has global application; it will find an eager audience among policy leaders, technicians, hospitals, and physicians. In Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, in which DRGs have been implemented since the 1980s, there is still little or no comparison three decades later across countries, […]

By Christian Schweizer, Francesca Racioppi and Leda Nemer 2014

Edited by Anna Ritsatakis 2008 This booklet has been written as part of the strategy of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network for healthy ageing in Europe. It is designed as a generic model that cities across Europe can adapt to suit their local needs. Cities may freely substitute examples or illustrations more suited to their local culture […]

Edited by Richard B. Saltman, Vaida Bankauskaite and Karsten Vrangbæk 2007

Principal author and editor A. David Napier 2017  

World Health Organization 2018