As a consequence, an expert group meeting on the cultural contexts of health and well-being was convened by the WHO Regional Office for Europe on 15–16 January 2015. The project on the cultural contexts of health was initiated at the WHO Regional Office for Europe in response to the Member States’ recommendation that the implementation of Health 2020 could be improved by a more thorough understanding of the cultural contexts of health in the highly diverse European Region. HEN and the cultural contexts of health project at the WHO Regional Office for Europe Based on the synthesized evidence, HEN proposes policy options, not recommendations, for further consideration of policy-makers to formulate their own recommendations and policies within their national context.
#Cultural contexts series
The HEN synthesis report series provides summaries of what is known about the policy issue, the gaps in the evidence and the areas of debate. HEN supports public health decision-makers to use the best available evidence in their own decision-making and aims to ensure links between evidence, health policies and improvements in public health.
HEN – the Health Evidence Network – is an information service for public health decision-makers in the WHO European Region, in action since 2003 and initiated and coordinated by the WHO Regional Office for Europe under the umbrella of the European Health Information Initiative (a multipartner network coordinating all health information activities in the European Region).
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