WHO Regional Office for Europe

Much about poverty is obvious enough, particularly the relationship between poverty and ill health. So evident are the linksthat extreme poverty is listed in the International Classification of Diseases. Far more controversial are the answers to thefollowing questions: How is poverty caused? How...

Foreword The Health Care Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide an analytical description of a health care system and of reform initiatives in progress or under development. The HiTs are a key element of the work of the European Observatory on Health...

Foreword The Health Care Systems in Transition (HiT) profiles are country-based reports that provide an analytical description of a health care system and of reform initiatives in progress or under development. The HiTs are a key element of the work of the European Observatory on Health...

As part of its Health Policy for Europe, the Régiónál Office for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1984 set 38 targets for the achievement of health for all (HFA). Many of these relate to the promotion of healthy lifestyles. One of these targets - targetl7 - calls for the...