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• 29TH Meeting of the South-eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) in Zagreb, on 04-05 June 2012
  15-05-2012
  The Croatian Presidency of the South-eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) (January-June 2012) is organizing its 29th Meeting in Zagreb, on 04-05 June 2012.
• Croatia to host First Regional Ministerial Conference on Organ Donation and Transplantation
  17-04-2012
  On 4 June 2012 the Ministerial Conference "Heart to the Region − Beating Towards Self-sufficiency” will take place in Zagreb, Croatia. This Conference will focus on challenges in the field of organ donation and transplantation and will be held back-to-back with the 29th meeting of the South-eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) on 5-6 June 2012.
• Netherlands collaborating centre working on new approach to primary care
  07-03-2012
  On 20 February 2012, WHO/Europe agreed key research areas for the next two years with the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), a WHO collaborating centre for primary care.
• Strengthening capacity in Balkan countries to improve engagement in Codex Alimentarius activities. Durres, Albania, 6-8 September 2011
  02-09-2011
  Food safety officials from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will be trained by WHO and FAO experts to stimulate a more effective participation in the Codex process by Balkan countries, who joined the Codex in recent years. The course will provide an in-depth knowledge of Codex and of how countries participate and can influence its work. The training will also focus on the use of Codex Alimentarius standards, guidelines and recommendations on food safety standards. Related issues, such as coordinating Codex work at the national level and linking it to other food safety country activities, will also be discussed.
• 34th Annual Meeting of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring in Croatia
  16-08-2011
  This year, the meeting will be held 31 October - 02 November in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
• Hospital safety assessment in Croatia
  24-05-2011
  A workshop on hospital safety assessment was held in Zagreb on 4 May 2011 with participation of 36 hospitals from around Croatia.
• Managing negative impacts of heat-waves: symposium held in Croatia on heat and health action plans
  18-05-2011
  Climate change has an impact on morbidity and mortality. As Europe, Australia and New Zealand have experienced, heat-waves increase awareness of the connection between health and high temperatures.
• High-profile event starts the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 in Croatia
  11-05-2011
• World Health Day 2011: Health Champion
  15-04-2011
  On the occasion of the World Health Day, the award ceremony for the selected Health Champion  was organized by the Department for Health and Veterans of the Zagreb City Authority. The Champion title went to the psychologist Ljubica Uvodić Vranic. This award was presented to her by the Deputy Mayor Pavicic Jelena Vukicevic at the central event on the Flower market in Zagreb.
• Inauguration of the Regional Health Development Centre on organ donation and transplantation in SEE countries, Croatia
  30-03-2011
  On 22 February 2011 Dr Ante-Zvonimir Golem, State Secretary for Health and Social Welfare of Croatia, officially inaugurated the Regional Health Development Centre (RHDC) on organ donation and transplantation in south-eastern European (SEE) countries, located in Croatia.
• Promoting food and water safety in the school system in Croatia: WHO workshop in Zagreb, 13-14 October 2010
  06-09-2010
  The Biennial Collaborative Agreement (BCA) between Croatia and WHO/Europe for 2010-11 identifies food and water safety in the school system as a priority. The workshop aims to decrease the incidence of food- and waterborne diseases among school children in Croatia by increasing awareness and providing information to participants about the public health importance of food and water safety and hygiene in the school system. It will also serve as an input for improving hygiene and food safety habits among school children.
• World Health Day 2010
  18-04-2010
  The campaign in Croatia involved many Croatian cities and towns, including Zagreb, which organized activities during Health Week (7–15 April 2010).
• PATH (performance assessment tool for quality improvement in hospitals) project
  25-02-2010
  As part of activities to improve governance of hospitals and performance management, the WHO Country Office, the Croatian Medical Association and Croatian Society for Health Quality, in collaboration with Croatian Accreditation Agency and European Society for Quality in Health care (ESQH), organized a one-day symposium in Zagreb on 12 February 2010.