EUR/RC62/wd08 (Eng) - WHO/Europe - World Health Organization

EUR/RC62/8
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Improving leadership and participatory governance for health ........................................... 35
Health governance................................................................................................................ 36
Smart governance................................................................................................................. 37
Working together on common priorities for health..................................................................... 38
Investing in health through a life-course approach and empowering people.............................. 39
Healthy women, mothers and healthy babies....................................................................... 39
Healthy children and healthy adolescents............................................................................ 41
Healthy adults ...................................................................................................................... 43
Healthy older people ............................................................................................................46
Vulnerability, vulnerable groups and health ........................................................................ 48
Actions across the life-course to tackle health inequities and their social determinants ..... 52
The voices and empowerment of people and patients ......................................................... 53
Tackle Europe’s major disease burdens ...................................................................................... 55
Noncommunicable diseases ................................................................................................. 55
Mental health ....................................................................................................................... 60
Injuries and violence ............................................................................................................ 62
Communicable diseases ....................................................................................................... 63
Strategies to tackle health inequities and their social determinants for the major diseases . 71
Strengthening people-centred health systems, public health capacity and emergency
preparedness, surveillance and response..................................................................................... 72
Health systems ..................................................................................................................... 72
Public health services........................................................................................................... 75
Individual health services: improving access and quality.................................................... 77
Generating high-quality health system input ....................................................................... 80
Health security, the International Health Regulations, emergency preparedness and response
to public health emergencies....................................................................................................... 86
Creating resilient communities and supportive environments for health.................................... 88
The physical environment.................................................................................................... 88
Sustainable development...................................................................................................... 92
The urban environment ........................................................................................................ 94
Local leadership for health and well-being and the role of mayors and civic leaders ......... 95
The social environment: social determinants of and assets for health ................................. 96
Part 3. Health 2020: Enhancing effective implementation – requirements, pathways
and continuous learning ......................................................................................................... 101
Introduction............................................................................................................................... 103
Making it happen – the challenges facing policy-makers ......................................................... 103
Leadership, including strengthening the roles of health ministers and the health sector .......... 104
Developing, implementing and evaluating national and subnational health policies,
strategies and plans, drawing on the contribution of various sectors........................................ 105
Adding value through partnerships and partners for health ...................................................... 106
Creating whole-of-society and whole-of-government responsibility for health work .............. 109
Capacity for governance for health: by the whole of society and the whole of
government, and through health in all policies – applying the governance lens ............ 109
Policy implications for the successful use of intersectoral governance structures............. 112
Capacity for tackling the social determinants of health and the health divide –
applying the equity lens .................................................................................................. 113
Support to evaluate and strengthen overall governance capacity to address the social
determinants of health and the health divide .................................................................. 115
New demands for technical assistance from countries and the WHO response ................ 116