Publications

Mental health, men and culture (2020)

How do sociocultural constructions of masculinities relate to men’s mental health help-seeking behaviour in the WHO European Region?

Pandemic fatigue - Reinvigorating the public to prevent COVID-19, September 2020

Understanding and building resilience to early life trauma in Belarus and Ukraine (2020)

This report reflects the content of the workshops through a collection of participant essays highlighting key cultural contexts and opportunities for fostering more protective and health-enhancing environments for young people in Belarus and Ukraine.

Migration and health: enhancing intercultural competence and diversity sensitivity (2020)

Access to responsive, people-centred health systems is essential to ensure appropriate health care for refugees and migrants throughout the process of migration and settlement. Focusing on intercultural competence and diversity sensitivity, this toolkit contributes to a broader WHO strategy to develop an evidence-based response to the public health needs of refugees and migrants

Prospects for change: localizing global ambitions to country contexts (2020)

The fifth meeting of the expert group of the CCH project was held in June 2019 at the Regional Office in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss the project’s next five-year strategic plan

HEN report - What is the evidence on existing policies and linked activities and their effectiveness for improving health literacy at national, regional and organizational levels in the WHO European Region? (2018)

Health literacy is gaining increasing attention as a means of promoting health. This evidence synthesis describes health literacy policies in the WHO European Region: their distribution, organizational levels, antecedents, actors, activities and outcomes, along with the factors influencing their effectiveness.

Public Health Panorama – Transforming health systems and societies by investing in health literacy policy and strategy (2019)

Globally, health literacy is gaining traction politically in efforts to transform health systems. According to WHO, today’s disease-centred, reaction-based health services are not fit for the challenges of the 21st century.

Public Health Panorama – Acting together: WHO National Health Literacy Demonstration Projects (NHLDPs) address health literacy needs in the European Region (2019)

This manuscript presents the methods, aims, status and preliminary outcomes of the seven flagship European NHLDPs, which cover a broad scope of settings, health conditions and life stages.

Cultural contexts at a Glance series (2020)

Cultural Contexts at a Glance is a WHO series focusing on the historical, cultural and social dimensions of health challenges in the WHO European Region. It aims to encourage decision-makers to integrate insights from the social sciences and health humanities in health policy and planning.

Toolkit – Tailoring Immunization Programmes (2019)

The Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP) approach was developed to integrate people-centred research and behavioural insights into immunization programme planning and policy. The phases and steps of a TIP process are described in detail in this publication, supported by inspiration examples and exercises for TIP planning workshops.