World Health Organization

2016

In the WHO European Region, Member States share a timeless commitment to strengthen health systems for health and development. This commitment was marked by the 1996 Ljubljana Conference on reforming health care and reaffirmed by the 2008 Tallinn Charter on health and development. More recently, strengthening people-centred health systems, including revitalized public health functions and capacity, was recognized as one of four priority areas in the European policy framework, Health 2020, which set out a course of action for achieving the Region’s greatest health potential by the year 2020.