Regions for Health Network (RHN)

Services and Activities

Our members benefit from numerous services:

advocating through pan-European networks and observations;
cooperation on regional health systems and information development and evaluation;
support for regions in accession states;
links between regions in areas of common programmatic interest;
workshops and training sessions in a priority area organized at the regional level;
facilitated access to technical expertise (among our member regions and within WHO), particularly on improving health policy at the regional level;
access to health policy information at the regional level and from other RHN members; and
implementation of projects in timely topics with participation of RHN members.

These services are in line with the following aims, as stated in the RHN Membership Agreement:

to improve health policy at regional levels within Europe in line with the WHO policy;
to promote the transfer of knowledge and experience of health policy development at regional and local levels within Europe;
to encourage intersectoral action for health;
to explore alternative approaches to developing health policy at a regional and local level within Europe; and
and to examine the balance of resources that is desirable at the regional level, emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention.