Publications
Key publications
Transformation in Practice: the third Meeting of the Coalition of Partners to Strengthen Public Health Services in the European Region (2019)
Report of the Expert Meeting. 27–28 November 2018, Ljubljana, Slovenia
System change for better public health in North Macedonia: a roadmap (2020)
It identifies key areas of work and specific agendas for improving the provision of public health services and fulfilling legislative commitments set out in the 2010 Law on Public Health.
WHO-ASPHER Competency Framework for the Public Health Workforce in the European Region (2020)
Member States are requesting guidance on how to build the capacity of the public health workforce. The WHO-ASPHER Competency Framework can serve as a point of departure for developing more context-specific competencies.
Joint WHO Regional Office for Europe and International Association of National Public Health Institutes technical seminar: establishing national public health institutes through mergers – what does it take? (2018)
This joint WHO-IANPHI expert meeting aimed to support key individuals tasked with leading the development of their institutional reforms in their countries by providing a platform to engage in a peer-to-peer format with countries who have recent experience in merging processes.
Ensuring collaboration between primary health care and public health services (2018)
This publication draws from successful experiences in collaboration between public health and primary health care in five European countries (Austria, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden).
Expert Meeting on Professionalization of the Public Health Workforce (2018)
The Expert Meeting on Professionalization of the Public Health Workforce was held in London, United Kingdom on 19 June 2018.
Second expert meeting of The Coalition of Partners to Strengthen Public Health Capacities and Services in the European Region: how do we collaborate powerfully and accelerate targeted action?(2018)
Twenty new actions and ideas were created during sessions and workshops, opening up a breadth of opportunities for the CoP to achieve its objectives during 2018/2019.
Exploratory meeting: integrating public health and primary health care services in the WHO European Region (2018)
Meeting with international experts from academia and practice and experts from a variety of countries that were keen to take forward the integration of public health services and primary health care.
Towards a roadmap for the digitalization of national health systems in Europe. Meeting report (2018)
On 21 June 2018, the Division of Health Systems and Public Health of the WHO Regional Office for Europe convened a first meeting to address the future of the digitalization of health systems.
South-eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) Policy dialogue on health system transformation (2018)
This report summarizes the key objectives and messages, including the outcome of working-group sessions, from the policy dialogue on health system transformation held in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 14 November 2017.
Strengthening the governance of public health services in the South-eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) (2018)
This report summarizes the key objectives and messages obtained from the policy dialogue on strengthening the governance of public health services in the South-eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN), held in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 15 November 2017, including the outcome of working-group sessions.
Technical report on the self-assessment of essential public health operations in the Republic of Armenia (2018)
This technical report presents the self-assessment of essential public health operations in the Republic of Armenia
Results of the self-assessment of essential public health operations in the Kyrgyz Republic (2017)
This report presents the results of Kyrgyzstan’s self-assessment of the essential public health operations (EPHOs).
Environmentally sustainable health systems: a strategic document (2017)
The WHO Country Office in Kazakhstan and the WHO European Centre for Primary Health Care engaged experts from Saint Louis University and Columbia University to provide these workshops.
Self-assessments of the essential public health operations in the WHO European Region 2007–2015 (2017)
This report describes the findings of seven case studies of Member States of the WHO European Region, that carried out self-assessments of the essential public health operations (EPHOs) from 2007 to 2015.
Coalition of Partners Expert Meeting on Strengthening Public Health Capacities and Services in Europe - meeting report (2017)
Acting as the secretariat to this initiative, the WHO Regional Office for Europe convened a two-day meeting to start the process of co-creating the contents of the Agenda for Action that the Coalition of Partners would take forward.
Towards environmentally sustainable health systems in Europe. A review of the evidence (2016)
Overall, the evidence reviewed in this report illustrates the compelling rationale for fostering environmental sustainability in health systems.
Health system developments in former Soviet countries
Eurohealth, Vol. 21, No 2, 2015
South Eastern European Journal of Public Health
This issue of SEEJPH focuses on Health Systems in Transition worldwide.
Volume III, 2015
European Action Plan for Strengthening Public Health Capacities and Services
The European Action Plan was endorsed at the sixty-second session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe. It outlines the role of WHO and Member States in implementing 10 Essential Public Health Operations (EPHOs).
