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• World Health Assembly, day 2: resolution on noncommunicable diseases approved
  24-05-2012
  A resolution on strengthening noncommunicable disease policies to promote active ageing was approved by countries on the second day of WHO’s global annual meeting.
• Health workers: on the front line for vaccination
  23-04-2012
  Health professionals are the most important source of information for people making decisions about their and their families’ health. European Immunization Week (21–27 April 2012) focuses on the vital role of front-line health workers on the success of national immunization programmes. Read more ...
• Empowering patients
  17-04-2012
  From passive recipient to co-producer of health care – health systems must involve chronically ill people as equal partners in their treatment to be effective. The First European Conference on Patient Empowerment was held in Copenhagen, Denmark on 11–12 April 2012. Read more …
• Denmark hosts launch of World Health Day 2012
  25-03-2012
  On 2 April 2012, the WHO Regional Office for Europe and the Danish National Board of Health will jointly host an event in Copenhagen, Denmark, to kick off a range of activities organized throughout the WHO European Region to celebrate World Health Day. 
• Are prisons in Europe healthy?
  27-02-2012
  Over 2 million people across the WHO European Region are in prison. Prisoners are at greater risk of HIV, tuberculosis, poor mental health and drug addiction than people outside. Three short films look at health in prisons in Azerbaijan, Denmark and Kyrgyzstan.
• Danish delegation visits WHO/Europe
  10-01-2012
  On 9 January 2012, a delegation from the Ministry of Health of Denmark visited WHO/Europe, to discuss current and future collaboration and support during Denmark’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
• WHO Rome office closes at the end of 2011
  20-12-2011
  The Rome office of the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health is due to close at the end of December 2011. WHO’s work on environment and health in Europe remains a priority and is being consolidated in Bonn, Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark. This will allow the WHO Regional Office for Europe to maintain and strengthen its technical capacities in this area for the benefit of the 53 Member States of the European Region.
• New clinical health promotion research centre opens in Scandinavia
  29-11-2011
  The opening of the brand new Clinical Health Promotion Centre, a collaboration between Nordic research institutions, was celebrated on 18 November 2011. The new centre will strengthen global clinical research and development in five key areas: alcohol/drugs, tobacco, nutrition, physical activity and comorbidity.
• 93 cities now designated in Phase V of Healthy Cities
  17-11-2011
  Congratulations to the cities of Copenhagen in Denmark; Nantes in France and Cork in Ireland. They have been designated in Phase V of the WHO European Healthy Cities Network and will join other cities working toward the common goal of striving for health and healthy equity in all local policies.
• New report available: Tuberculosis control in Greenland
  07-03-2011
  There is a new report now available entitled, "Tuberculosis control in Greenland". In view of an observed tuberculosis incidence exceeding 100 cases per 100 000 population, the Minister of Health of Greenland asked the WHO Regional Office for Europe to organize a country visit jointly with the State Serum Institute of Denmark and the Danish Lung Association. The visit took place in the south of the country from 30 April to 6 May 2010.  
• From prison health to public health
  02-11-2010
• Learning from Nordic health systems
  21-06-2010
  Ministers of health and social affairs from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden met in Aalborg, Denmark today to exchange experience and discuss how to cooperate more closely to tackle noncommunicable diseases and provide highly specialized health care.