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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,...

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...

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...



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Medication safety in prisons key facts

Overview

‘Medication Safety’ has been selected as the theme for World Patient
Safety Day 2022, with the slogan ‘Medication Without Harm’.

 

WHO Team
Alcohol, Illicit Drugs & Prison Health (ADU)