Health at key stages of life: the life-course approach to public health
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World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
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14 p.
Key stages in people’s lives have particular relevance for theirhealth. The life-course approach is about recognizing theimportance of these stages, and WHO/Europe addressesthem in four programmes: Maternal and newborn health,Child and adolescent health, Sexual and reproductive health,and Healthy ageing. The Gender programme works acrossall others, applying a cross-cutting analysis to the impactof gender differences and inequalities on the health of bothwomen and men.The place where all policies meet is the child or theadult. This is why WHO/Europe helps countries to deliverintegrated, effective care in a continuum, rather than throughseparate and sometimes fragmented policies. WHO/Europeworks with governments and ministries of health in the 53Member States in the Region to reform their health systemsto improve and sustain the health of different populationgroups, with special attention given to countries with thehighest burden of mortality and disease.WHO/Europe also supports countries in reaching theMillennium Development Goals (MDGs) particularly MDGs3, 4 and 5, which aim to reduce gender inequities and childmortality and improve maternal health by 2015. Our focusis on measurable results and designing and implementingevidence-based policies.
Key stages in people’s lives have particular relevance for theirhealth. The life-course approach is about recognizing theimportance of these stages, and WHO/Europe addressesthem in four programmes: Maternal and newborn health,Child and adolescent health, Sexual and reproductive health,and Healthy ageing. The Gender programme works acrossall others, applying a cross-cutting analysis to the impactof gender differences and inequalities on the health of bothwomen and men.The place where all policies meet is the child or theadult. This is why WHO/Europe helps countries to deliverintegrated, effective care in a continuum, rather than throughseparate and sometimes fragmented policies. WHO/Europeworks with governments and ministries of health in the 53Member States in the Region to reform their health systemsto improve and sustain the health of different populationgroups, with special attention given to countries with thehighest burden of mortality and disease.WHO/Europe also supports countries in reaching theMillennium Development Goals (MDGs) particularly MDGs3, 4 and 5, which aim to reduce gender inequities and childmortality and improve maternal health by 2015. Our focusis on measurable results and designing and implementingevidence-based policies.