Trans-fatty acids (TFAs), or trans-fats, are an important public health problem that has many negative consequences for human health and requires multi-stakeholder health policy interventions for its solution. TÜSEB Turkish Institute for Health Policies, the Ministry of Health of Turkey and the WHO Coun...
High-quality research is important for improving population health and well-being and for achieving
the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. The challenges facing individuals, organizations and
countries in securing research funding and building research capacity, and then using these resources
...
The WHO European Region has the highest levels of alcohol consumption per capita in the world, yet alcohol
labelling, a WHO-recommended practice that provides consumer information on the ingredients, nutritional
values and harms of alcohol, is not mandatory. This report synthesizes evidence on alcohol la...
Men are less likely than women to seek help for mental health issues and are much more likely to commit
suicide. This scoping review examined recent evidence published in English and Russian on the role of socially
constructed masculinity norms in men’s help-seeking behaviour for mental health issues. ...
The Health Evidence Network (HEN) is an information service for public health decision-makers in the
WHO European Region, in action since 2003 and initiated and coordinated by the WHO Regional Office for
Europe under the umbrella of the WHO European Health Information Initiative (a multipartner network
c...
This review focuses on existing immunization policies and practices for migrants and refugees and provides an overview of barriers and facilitators for access to and utilization of immunization services. Evidence was obtained by a scoping review of academic and grey literature in English and a further 11...
Storytelling is an essential tool for reporting and illuminating the cultural contexts of health: the practices and behaviour that groups of people share and that are defined by customs, language and geography. This report reviews the literature on narrative research, offers some quality criteria for app...
Health systems in Europe face a number of increasingly complex challenges.
Globalization, evolving health threats, an ageing society, fi nancial constraints on
government spending, and social and health inequalities are some of the most
pressing. Such challenges require not only different funding and org...
The availability of public reporting initiatives on the quality of health and longterm care providers has increased since the 1990s when many countries began
introducing choice of care provider policies.
One of the primary reasons for public reporting of quality information is to
assist patients and user...
The crisis has given substance to an old and often
hypothetical debate about the financial sustainability of
health systems in Europe. For years it was the spectre
of ageing populations, cost-increasing developments
in technology and changing public expectations that
haunted European policy-makers troubl...
