Global Health EuropeThis glossary provides a guide to global health issues from a European perspective, providing introductory articles on each topic and links to the organizations and sources most closely involved in each field. The Glossary is an updated and expanded edition of European Perspectives on Global Health-a policy glossary (Kickbusch and Lister, 2006). It is a living resource that is intended to grow to reflect the comments and engagement of participants in Global Health Europe. If your perspective is not yet reflected in the glossary, you are welcome to add comments and links so that we can understand each other better and improve how we work together.Below you’ll find an alphabetic list of topics covered in the glossary. The articles are organized into four main sections dealing with:
Letter on the World Health Organisation reform sent to Geneva Missions of Member States of the WHO by Democratising Global Health Coalition. 13th September 2011 Dear Member States of the World Health Organisation, Aware of the upcoming discussions on the progress of the WHO reform process and related documents, we would like to share with […]
Senior officials and technical experts from WHO and the European Commission (EC) met in Brussels on 24-25 March 2011 to outline and agree how the two partnering organizations will work more closely together in priority areas of shared interests, WHO EURO reports. The meeting was opened by Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, who was […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is pleased to announce the launch of a web-based public hearing from 21 March to 17 April 2011 on the draft guidelines for monitoring the implementation of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel (“the Guidelines”). WHO invites you to contribute to this public […]
The European Forum Alpbach and the Institute of Social Medicine, Center for Public Health at the Medical University of Vienna present the Summer School “European Health Care and Social Systems in Transition”, which will take place in Alpbach/Austria from 18 to 25 August, 2011. The Summer School will take place as part of the “European […]
Euractiv.com reports that Indian pharmaceutical industry representatives and NGOs have voiced opposition to an imminent EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) which they claim would limit the emerging nation’s ability to produce generic drugs. Opposition focused on an EU request for a ‘data exclusivity’ clause which opponents claim would prevent India from producing cheap generics. Speaking […]
WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark On 25 and 26 November 2010, government officials from across the European Region were brought together in Oslo, Norway at the UNDESA/WHO Regional High-level Consultation in the European Region on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases to discuss and provide input to the preparations for the 2011 […]
The joy of stats: Hans Rosling works his magic in real space 01 February 2011 Another excellent demonstration of our new reality from Hans Rosling. 200 countries over 200 years in 4 minutes. From the BBC Four programme The Joy of Stats. UN Debate Global Health and Foreign Policy On 10 December the Assembly held […]
On 10 December the Assembly held a debate on “global health and foreign policy”, adopting a consensus resolution on that issue, by which it underscored that global health was a long-term objective — local, national, regional and international in scope — that required sustained commitment and closer international cooperation beyond emergency. It welcomed the coordinated […]
The Health in All Policies initiative, proposed during the 2006 Finnish presidency of the EU, provided an important opportunity to consider the impact of both internal and external policies on health. It noted that many of the key determinants of health – and global health – lie outside the domain of traditional health policy. For […]
The Swedish Presidency of the European Union convened a meeting of high level European global health stakeholders in Stockholm on Friday, 4 December 2009. The meeting was co-organised by the Karolinska Institutet and Global Health Europe. The seminar came at a crucial moment for European engagement in global health; its objective being to give feedback […]