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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,...

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...

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...

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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Principles to guide health system recovery and transformation in Ukraine

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The Government of Ukraine together with national and international partners is planning for the country’s recovery and reconstruction. To support this process, WHO has prepared a policy note which outlines strategic directions for health system recovery in the short and longer terms, while sustaining essential health services during the ongoing invasion. The policy note identifies 5 principles or “tenets” that may be used as criteria to assess potential investments into health system recovery in Ukraine, aimed at transforming the system to best enable the delivery of quality individual and public health services to the population, rather than merely rebuilding what was destroyed by the war. Application of the tenets to each health system component would align the recovery process with the pre-war health sector reform strategies, while responding to changing population health needs and mitigating pre-existing inefficiencies, in order to build a more robust and resilient health system that is capable of absorbing future shocks and crises.
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Czechia, Hungary, Moldova, Republic of, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, WHO Health Emergencies Programme (WHE)
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