WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe)
Description:
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the authority responsible for public health within the United Nations system. The WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) is one of WHO’s six regional offices around the world.
It serves the WHO European Region, which comprises 53 countries, covering a vast geographical region from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. WHO/Europe collaborates with a range of public health stakeholders in the Region and globally, to ensure that coordinated action is taken to develop and implement efficient health policies and to strengthen health systems. Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge has been at WHO/Europe’s helm since 1 February 2020, as WHO Regional Director for Europe.
WHO/Europe is made up of public health, scientific and technical experts, who are based in the main office in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 4 outposted centres and in country offices in 29 Member States.
Reference information
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Observatory Contributions:
- Budapest Declaration: accelerating action for healthier people, a thriving planet, a sustainable future
- Zero regrets: scaling up action on climate change mitigation and adaptation for health in the WHO European Region (2nd ed.)
- Urban planning for health – experiences of building resilience in 12 cities
- Urban planning for resilience and health: key messages
- Review of indicator frameworks supporting urban planning for resilience and health
- Urban planning, design and management approaches to building resilience – an evidence review
- Manual for monitoring insecticide resistance in mosquito vectors and selecting appropriate interventions
- Lyme Borreliosis in Europe
- Heat and health in the WHO European Region: updated evidence for effective prevention
- Addressing climate change and health in the Europe and Central Asia region: A Joint Value Proposition
- Health advice for hot weather during the COVID-19 outbreak
- Priorities for protecting health from climate change in the WHO European Region: recent regional activities
- SDG 13: Health and climate action
- Manual on prevention of establishment and control of mosquitoes of public health importance
- Public health and climate change adaptation policies in the European Union
- Quantifying Projected Heat Mortality Impacts under 21st-Century Warming Conditions for Selected European Countries
- Urban green spaces: a brief for action
- Urban green space interventions and health: A review of impacts and effectiveness
- Protecting health in Europe from climate change: 2017 update
- Flooding: Managing Health Risks in the WHO European Region
- The Health Effects of Climate Change in the WHO European Region
- Status report for the European Regional Framework for Action to protect health from climate change
- WHO Europe - Thematic page "Climate change"
- Protecting Health from Climate Change in the WHO European Region
- Climate change and health: a tool to estimate health and adaptation costs
- Floods in the WHO European Region: health effects and their prevention
- Guidance on water supply and sanitation in extreme weather events
- Public health advice on preventing health effects of heat
Published in Climate-ADAPT Jun 07 2016 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Mar 14 2024