About the theme
WHO/Europe helps countries in the WHO European Region to prepare for and respond to health emergencies by offering technical guidance, support and coordinating in the field. WHO/Europe also implements the International Health Regulations (IHR) which provides a unique global framework for health security, involving 196 countries worldwide and including all WHO Member States. Under the IHR, countries commit to reporting public health emergencies of international concern and in strengthening their national surveillance, preparedness, and response systems.
Featured indicator
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Health care organizations use social media to make emergency announcements (Horizontal bar chart)
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mHealth programmes for emergencies (operating levels and types) (Wind rose chart)
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mHealth programmes for emergency toll-free telephone services (operating levels) (Horizontal bar chart)
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mHealth programmes for emergency toll-free telephone services (types of programmes) (Horizontal bar chart)
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In focus: Synergistic Health In Emergencies Ladder Development Scale (SHIELDS)The WHO Emergency Program (WHE) in the European Region is using the SHIELDS (Synergistic Health In Emergencies Ladder Development Tools) as a practical platform to present the monitoring and evaluations and to steer, enhance, monitor and upscale those capacities of member states.Read more
Popular indicators
- Physicians per 100 000 HFA-DB
- Acute care hospital beds per 100 000 HFA-DB
- Hospital beds per 100 000 HFA-DB
- Public expenditure on health, PPP$ per capita, WHO estimates HFA-DB
- Deaths due to work-related accidents per 100 000 HFA-DB
- National policies aligned with Health 2020 Health2020
- Psychiatrists, per 100 000 HlthRes-DB
- % population with access to sewage system, septic tank or other hygienic means of sewage disposal HFA-DB ChildAdolescentHealth
- New cases of occupational diseases per 100 000 HFA-DB
- SDR, infectious and parasitic diseases, all ages, per 100 000 HFA-DB