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Day 2 highlights: strengthening health systems to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
“For us, the goal of universal health coverage is the lodestar of our health policy,” said His Excellency Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania. From improving vaccine coverage to ensuring financial protection, strengthening health systems was a key theme on Day 2 of the 68th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe.
News
- Day 2 highlights: strengthening health systems to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
- New WHO progress report reveals the major health challenges currently facing children and adolescents in Europe
- Day 1 highlights: RC68 opens
- Too many European men die young from preventable causes – WHO report reveals
- New issue of Panorama: reducing the burden of NCDs in Europe
Events
- 68th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
- Summer School on Refugee and Migrant Health
- Ending HIV, tuberculosis and viral hepatitis through intersectoral collaboration in Europe and central Asia Side event to the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly
- Migration and Health Webinar Seven: Winds of change over turbulent seas – the future of refugee and migrant health in Europe
- International Healthy Cities Conference
Regional Director
Address by WHO Regional Director for Europe at the 68th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe Regional Director's site
Emergencies and outbreaks
- World Humanitarian Day: Health workers build new lives serving their fellow citizens far from home
17-08-2018
- Health response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
- Syria crisis: health response from Turkey
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68th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe
17–20 September 2018, Rome, Italy
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