WHO/Europe provides guidance to Member States on strengthening health systems and rapidly reorganizing service delivery to respond to COVID-19 while maintaining core essential services across the continuum of care so that no one is left behind. This overview of policy resources includes overall policy recommendations for a well-aligned health system response, technical guidance and checklists, and planning and monitoring tools.
This policy brief summarizes 16 recommendations to strengthen the health system response to COVID-19 in the WHO European Region, to break chains of transmission, and to diagnose and treat cases while maintaining essential services. It is accompanied by a matrix of action points, organized according to WHO transmission scenarios.
These technical guidance notes with check lists provide in-depth pragmatic policy recommendations to strengthen the health system response to COVID-19 and include emergent country-specific practices.
These surge planning tools support Member States in visualizing acute and intensive care capacity needs over time, identifying the timing and severity of the peak of the outbreak, and engaging in detailed planning of human resources for health systems.
This web platform offers up-to-date information and analysis of country health system responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health initiatives. This is a joint undertaking of WHO/Europe, the European Commission and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.
