Levelling Up (part 2) [antikvár]

The WHO Regional Office for Europe is one of six regional offices throughoutthe world, each with its own programme geared to the particular healthproblems of the countries it serves. The European Region embraces some870 million people living in an area stretching from Greenland in the northand the Mediterranean in the south to the Pacific shores of the RussianFederation. The European programme of WHO therefore concentrates bothon the problems associated with industrial and post-industrial society andon those faced by the emerging democracies of central and eastern Europeand the former USSR.To ensure the widest possible availability of authoritative information andguidance on health matters, WHO secures broad international distributionof its publications and encourages their translation and adaptation. Byhelping to promote and protect health and prevent and control disease,WHO's books contribute to achieving the Organization's principal objective- the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health.WHO European Office for Investment for Health and DevelopmentThe WHO European Office for Investment for Health and Development, whichcoordinated the activities leading to this publication, was set up by the WHORegional Office for Europe, with cooperation and support from the Ministryof Health and the Veneto Region of Italy. One of its key responsibilities is toprovide evidence on and act upon the social and economic determinants ofhealth. The Office systematically reviews what is involved in drawing togetherthe concepts, scientific evidence, technology and policy action necessaryto achieve effective investment for the promotion of health and synergybetween social, economic and health development. The Office fulfils twointerrelated main functions:to monitor, review and systematize the policy implications of the socialand economic determinants of population health;andto provide services to help Member States in the WHO European Regionincrease their capacity to invest in health by addressing these policyimplications and integrating them into the agenda for development.