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Celebrating universal health coverage across the WHO European Region
Every year on 7 April, WHO celebrates World Health Day to mark the anniversary of its founding. This year’s celebrations focused on the themes of universal health coverage and primary health care.
News
- Celebrating universal health coverage across the WHO European Region
- Ukraine’s Affordable Medicines Programme shown to have significantly improved access to medicines
- Member States urged to ramp up fight against noncommunicable diseases
- Small countries of the WHO European Region exchange ideas and experiences of equity, sustainable development
- WHO urges stronger action to reduce deaths from noncommunicable diseases in Europe by one third
Events
- European Immunization Week 2019 – celebrating everyday heroes who make immunization possible
- Fifth United Nations Global Road Safety Week
- Annual Meeting of the WHO European National Healthy Cities Networks
- Tobacco and lung health – World No Tobacco Day 2019
- 12th meeting of the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI)
Emergencies and outbreaks
- Photo story – The human impact of WHO’s Refugee Health Programme in Turkey
12-03-2019
- Health response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
- Syria crisis: health response from Turkey
European Centre for Primary Health Care
Located in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the Centre supports Member States in reforming systems to deliver people-centred, integrated health services and to strengthen the delivery of services that are based on a primary health care approach.
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