Keeping health high on the agenda: the European Health Report 2024
WHO through one of its flagship publications, the European Health Report, supports countries by providing a call to action and guiding framework.
The 2024 edition of the European Health Report shows that people’s health in the WHO European Region continues to be negatively impacted by a range of complex and persistent threats and new hazards, which demand urgent attention in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The report calls on Member States of the WHO European Region to:
- better protect the health of children;
- address the preventable burden of noncommunicable diseases;
- tackle the emerging phenomenon of widespread poor mental health and well-being;
- tighten the grip on infectious diseases;
- transform health systems to be resilient and sustainable in the face of new health emergencies, climate change and demographic shifts; and
- ensure a solid evidence base for health policy-making.
The European Health Report is a key publication of WHO/Europe, produced every 3 years. The 2024 edition is based on indicators from the “Measurement framework for the European Programme of Work, 2020–2025”. The insights and evidence in the report serve as a guide for the priorities to be addressed in the next European Programme of Work for 2026–2030.
To ensure the widest possible availability of authoritative information and guidance on health matters, WHO secures broad international distribution of its publications and encourages their translation and adaptation. Publications such as the European Health Report 2024 help to promote and protect health and prevent and control disease, and contribute to achieving the Organization’s principal objective – the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of health.
