Assessing progress under Health 2020 in the European Region of the World Health Organization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health 2020 is the regional health policy framework of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe. The goals of Health 2020 are to improve health and well-being, reduce health inequalities and strengthen public health. To gain insight into the Health 2020 targets needing extra attention in coming years, we assessed progress under Health 2020 in the WHO European Region.

Methods

Quantitative methods were used to assess progress in 50 out of 53 Member States of the WHO European Region in 2005, 2010 and 2015. The 16 quantitative Health 2020 indicators were rescaled from 1 to 100, with 1 indicating poor performance and 100 indicating good performance. The geometric mean of all 16 rescaled indicators was taken by Health 2020 target to compose a Healt

SUBMITTER: Zuidberg MRJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733045 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature