News, News from the SEEHN Member States
After successful completion of the SEEHN Fourth Ministerial Forum “Health, well-being and prosperity in South-Eastern Europe (SEE) by 2030 in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which concluded with signing and approval of the Chisinau Pledge, the SEEHN Secretariat continued its activities on organizing the signing by partners which did not attend the Forum.
In this framework, Centre for Regional Policy Research and Cooperation “Studiorum” expressed their commitment, through signing the Chisinau Pledge during a bilateral meeting, between Dr. Mira Jovanovski Dasic, Head of SEEHN Secretariat and Dr. Neda Milevska Kostova, Executive Director of CRPRC “Studiorum”, held on 11 of May 2017 in the premises of SEEHN Secretariat.
This meeting was also used for mutual exchange of information and discussion on possible areas of cooperation in the future. The willingness and readiness to develop and implement joint projects has been expressed and will be discussed in details, during the forthcoming meetings.
News, News from the SEEHN Member States
The SEEHN Fourth Ministerial Forum “Health, well-being and prosperity in South-Eastern Europe (SEE) by 2030 in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” concluded with the signing and approval of the Chisinau Pledge.
In this framework, SEE Network on Workers’ Health (SEENWH), WHO Collaborating Center expressed their commitment, through signing the Chisinau Pledge during a bilateral meeting held on 09 of May 2017 in the premises of SEEHN Secretariat between Dr. Mira Jovanovski Dasic, Head of SEEHN Secretariat and Prof. Dr. Jovanka Karadžinska-Bislimovska, Coordinator of SEENWH.
This opportunity was used to discuss possible areas for cooperation for the future period.
In addition, upon the request of the SEEHN director, Dr. Dragan Miakoski from Institute of occupational health of the Republic of Macedonia (IOHRM) delivered his presentation prepared for the World Health Day on “Occupational diseases associated with depression”. The presentation included data from a research conducted among health workers in the Republic of Macedonia, which showed shortages at different levels.
Ministerial Forum, News, News from the SEEHN Member States
The Fourth Forum, under the theme “Health, well-being and prosperity in South-Eastern Europe by 2030 in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” was held in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova on 3-4 April 20017.
The Forum was hosted by The Government of the Republic of Moldova and organized jointly by the South-eastern Europe Health Network in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
The high-level representatives of governments in the SEE region and beyond, discussed in an open and constructive atmosphere and identified common challenges, strategic achievements and priorities of the SEE regional cooperation in public health. They mutually introduced joint subregional and national actions in the SEE region, for implementing and achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with the objective of better health, equity and accountability, as high priority for underpinning political cooperation and economic development in the SEE region.
More than 15 years of SEE cooperation (2001–2016) is streamlining towards the global and European efforts, for achieving improved health, equity and accountability, building on major European resolutions, charters, communiqués, treaties, frameworks and action plans, including the new European policy framework for health and well-being, Health 2020.
The endorsement of the Chisinau pledge, by nine south-eastern European countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Israel, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Romania and Serbia, on April 4th 2017, established the basis for the continuation of the cooperation in public health, in the forthcoming period.
*photos copyright – WHO/Igor Vrabie
nn*photos copyright – WHO/Igor Vrabie
