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Improving quality of care through water, sanitation and hygiene services: highlights and progress in the pan-European region

Health-care facilities require adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), waste management and environmental cleaning services to deliver high-quality,...

Meeting report on water, sanitation and hygiene in health-care facilities in the WHO European Region: Budapest, Hungary, 2–4 July 2025

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, including waste management and environmental cleaning, are fundamental to quality care, infection prevention...

Two decades of the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the European Union: progress, challenges and the road ahead

This report marks twenty years since the European Union (EU) signed the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and reflects on the EU’s...

Prevalence of Legionella as a waterborne pathogen and its health impacts in the pan-European region

Legionella infections represent a significant health burden in the pan-European region; in many countries it is considered among the most important waterborne...



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Can people afford to pay for health care? New evidence on financial protection in Spain

Overview

This review is the first comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of financial protection in Spain. It draws on microdata from annual household budget surveys carried out by the National Statistics Institute of Spain from 2006 to 2019 (the latest data available at the time of publication), and data on unmet need for health services. 
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Office for Health Systems Financing (Barcelona) (HSF), Spain