SEEHN Founding Partner WHO
Building resilient communities through planning for health and wellbeing at local level
Director of the SEEHN Secretariat Dr Mira Jovanovski Dasic and Program Manager, Program for National Health Policies, Division for Policy and Governance for Health and Wellbeing, Regional Office for Europe, Snezhana Chichevalieva, met in the Seat of the SEEHN Secretariat, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. They discussed possibilities for collaboration of the SEEHN and the WHO, Regional Office for Europe for building resilient communities through planning for health and wellbeing at local level in the SEE. Joint initiative’ beneficiaries would be interested SEEHN Member States with already developed structures at local level to support such an initiative.
Local health policy planning is expected to channel intersectoral efforts of stakeholders at local level to improve health and wellbeing and build resilient communities. Providing support and guidance to local actors for health and wellbeing will ensure an effective integration of the national and local priorities within the contemporary policy context of WHO European policy framework for health and wellbeing- Health2020 and 2030 Agenda. Ministers of Health of the SEEHN member States in the recently adopted SEEHN Chisinau Pledge (March, 2016) have committed to achieve goals and indicators set up by both policy frameworks.
SEEHN delivered Joint Statement on the Chisinau Pledge during 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva on 24 May 2017
During the 70th World Health Assembly held in Geneva from 22 to 31 of May 2017, Mrs. Ruxanda Glavan, Minister of Health of Republic of Moldova in her capacity as President of the SEE Health Network, on behalf of 9 member states delivered a Joint statement on the Chisinau Pledge and defined commitments of the Network for interventions in the forthcoming period.nnThe full text of the Statement is available at: http://seehn.org/category/publications/jstatements/
