CONFERENCE: Global Economic Crisis
1-2 APRIL 2009 | OSLO
Publisher/Organizer: WHO Regional Office for Europe
Date: 1-2 April 2009
Venue: Oslo, Norway
- Recordings from April 2009: Health+ global economic crisis
- Conference materials, programme and webcast
Objectives
- to review the situation in the WHO European Region by identifying the main risks for health and health systems and the main opportunities for action;
- to discuss policy options for responding to the negative impacts of the economic crisis on health systems and health outcomes in low-, middle- and high-income Member States in the European Region;
- to identify health- and health systems- related measures that could be used in the short and medium terms to counter the economic downturn and, in the longer term, to help address (some) structural issues confronting our societies.