Margaret Whitehead

The WHO Regional Office for Europe is one of six regional offices throughoutthe world, each with its own programme geared to the particular healthproblems of the countries it serves. The European Region embraces some870 million people living in an area stretching from Greenland in the northand the...

All the 32 Member States in the World Health Organization EuropeanRegion adopted a common health policy in 1980, followed by unani-mous agreement on 38 regional targets in 1984. The first of these targetsis concerned with equity:By the year 2000, the actual differences in health status between...