Pandemic fatigue - reinvigorating the public to prevent COVID-19: policy framework for supporting pandemic prevention and management
(WHO/Europe, 2020) ABSTRACT: Despite documented public support for pandemic response strategies across the WHO European Region, Member States are reporting signs of pandemic fatigue in their populations – here defined as distress which can result in demotivation to follow recommended protective behaviours, emerging gradually over time and affected by a number of emotions, experiences and perceptions. While pandemic fatigue is an individual reaction, governments acknowledge their responsibility to address the factors that lead to fatigue. Responding to a request from Member States for support in this field, this document provides a framework for the planning and implementation of national and subnational strategies to maintain and reinvigorate public support to prevent COVID-19. |
Understanding and building resilience to early life trauma in Belarus and Ukraine
(WHO/Europe, 2020) ABSTRACT: In 2018 and early 2019, the WHO Regional Office for Europe’s cultural contexts of health and well-being project worked alongside the University of Exeter’s WHO Collaborating Centre on Culture and Health, the Minsk Regional Centre for Psychiatry and Addiction, and the Institute of Mental Health of the Ukrainian Catholic University to engage researchers, practitioners, health-care workers and other relevant stakeholders in a series of workshops on the cultural contexts of early life trauma in Belarus and Ukraine. The initiative built on previous collaborative work to support the development of culturally informed mental health care in central and eastern Europe. This report reflects the content of the workshops through a collection of participant essays highlighting key cultural contexts and opportunities for fostering more protective and health-enhancing environments for young people in Belarus and Ukraine. It highlights the important role of subjective forms of evidence within culturally nuanced approaches to health and wellbeing enhancement, and aims to open up further interest in and opportunities for collaboration to address this under-researched area of mental health in the WHO European Region. |
Compendium of health system responses to large-scale migration in the WHO European Region
(WHO/Europe, 2018) ABSTRACT: The scale of international migration in the WHO European Region has increased substantially in the last decade. The dynamics of large-scale migration pose specific challenges and opportunities to health systems, and responses will differ from country to country. Strengthening health system responses is one of the priority areas in the 2016 Strategy and action plan for refugee and migrant health in the WHO European Region. Its agreed actions include the identification and mapping of practices for developing and delivering health services that respond to the needs of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. This compendium aims to collect and present some of these practices in the form of case studies. Selected in 2016, the case studies reflect experience from different levels of administration in a variety of European countries, and during the different phases of the migration journey. |
Culture matters. Using a cultural contexts of health approach to enhance policy-making
(WHO/Europe, 2017) ABSTRACT: This policy brief was developed in response to the increasing awareness among policy-makers and the public health community of the important relationship between culture and health. By exploring the three key public health areas of nutrition, migration and environment, the policy brief demonstrates how cultural awareness is central to understanding health and well-being and to developing more effective and equitable health policies. Consequently, it argues that public health policy-making has much to gain from applying research from the health-related humanities and social sciences. |
A focus on culture. Developing a systematic approach to the cultural contexts of health in the WHO European Region
(WHO/Europe, 2016) ABSTRACT: Over the past 20 years, a range of conceptual frameworks has been developed to examine how social and economic determinants intersect with health and well-being. While the importance of cultural contexts is frequently referenced in these frameworks (in a positive or negative way), the concrete ways in which value systems, traditions and beliefs act health and well-being are often unacknowledged, as are the frequently positive, protective effects that culture can have in the face of certain health challenges. In January 2015, the WHO Regional Office for Europe convened its first expert group meeting on the cultural contexts of health, thereby initiating a project that seeks to build a platform for research from the health-related humanities and social sciences to support the implementation of the European policy framework Health 2020. The second meeting of the expert group was convened in April 2016 to further explore how research from the humanities and social sciences can inform policy-making, and where this research can shed light on the subjective, human experiences of health. This report outlines the recommendations made by the expert group in relation to these objectives. |
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