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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...

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...

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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Harnessing the benefits of well‑being policies and investments for health

Overview

This document was produced as a companion product for the WHO European Regional High-level Forum on health in the well-being economy, held in Copenhagen on 1–2 March 2023.

It illustrates how to capture the value of well-being policies and interventions, especially in tackling today’s big policy challenges, such as trust, cohesion, sustainability of health and social systems, clean air and water, and health and social inequities.

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Office for Investment for Health & Development (ITA) (IHE), WHO European Well-being Economy Initiative