EUR/RC65/REP: Report of the 65Th Session of the WHO Regional
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Report of the 65th session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe Vilnius, Lithuania, 14–17 September 2015 Keywords REGIONAL HEALTH PLANNING HEALTH POLICY HEALTH PRIORITIES RESOLUTIONS AND DECISIONS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION EUROPE EUR/RC65/REP Address requests about publications of the WHO Regional Office for Europe to: Publications WHO Regional Office for Europe UN City, Marmorvej 51 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Alternatively, complete an online request form for documentation, health information, or for permission to quote or translate, on the Regional Office website (http://www.euro.who.int/pubrequest). © World Health Organization 2015 All rights reserved. The Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization welcomes requests for permission to reproduce or translate its publications, in part or in full. 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Contents Page Opening of the session .................................................................................................................... 1 Election of officers ................................................................................................................. 1 Adoption of the agenda and programme of work .................................................................. 1 Address by the President of the Republic of Lithuania ................................................................... 1 Address by Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Denmark ................................................ 2 Address by the WHO Regional Director for Europe ...................................................................... 2 Partnerships for health in the WHO European Region ................................................................... 8 WHO reform: progress and implications for the European Region .............................................. 10 Accountability and compliance ........................................................................................... 11 Overview of global governance reform ............................................................................... 13 WHO’s work in outbreaks and emergencies with health and humanitarian consequences ........................................................................................ 14 Address by the WHO Director-General ........................................................................................ 15 World No Tobacco Day Award .................................................................................................... 17 Report of the Twenty-second Standing Committee of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe ......................................................................................................... 17 The European health report 2015: Targets and beyond – reaching new frontiers in evidence ..... 18 Health 2020: promoting intersectoral and interagency action for health and well-being in the WHO European Region ......................................................... 20 Social determinants and health, and health literacy: links and coherence between health, education and social policy, and health in sustainable development and foreign policy ........................................................................ 23 Panel discussion ................................................................................................................... 23 General debate on intersectoral work, the decision and the panel discussion ..................... 26 Physical activity strategy for the WHO European Region 2016–2025 ......................................... 27 Roadmap of actions to strengthen implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the European Region 2015–2025: making tobacco a thing of the past ...................................................................................... 29 Elections and nominations ............................................................................................................ 32 Executive Board ................................................................................................................... 32 Standing Committee of the Regional Committee ................................................................ 32 Environment and Health Ministerial Board ......................................................................... 32 Priorities for health systems strengthening in the WHO European Region 2015–2020: walking the talk on people centredness ............................................... 33 Final report on implementation of the Consolidated action plan to prevent and combat multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in the WHO European Region 2011–2015 and consideration of the proposed Tuberculosis action plan for the WHO European Region 2016–2020 ................................................................. 37 Regional plan for implementation of programme budget 2016–2017 .......................................... 40 Matters arising out of resolutions and decisions of the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board ................................................................................................................... 42 Global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections .................................................................................................................... 43 International Health Regulations, the assessment and monitoring of core capacities ......... 44 Global strategies on people-centred and integrated health services and on human resources for health .................................................................................................... 46 Address by the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety .......................................... 47 Progress reports ............................................................................................................................. 49 Category 1: Communicable diseases ................................................................................... 49 Category 3: Promoting health through the life-course......................................................... 49 Category 4: Health systems ................................................................................................. 50 Category 5: Preparedness, surveillance and response ......................................................... 50 Confirmation of dates and places of future sessions of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe .................................................................................................................................. 50 Closure of the session .................................................................................................................... 51 Resolutions and decisions ............................................................................................................. 52 EUR/RC65/R1. Interim report of the Regional Director on the work of WHO in the European Region 2014–2015 ............................................................................................... 52 EUR/RC65/R2. Report of the Twenty-second Standing Committee of the Regional Committee for Europe ......................................................................................................... 52 EUR/RC65/R3. Physical activity strategy for the WHO European Region 2016–2025 ..... 56 EUR/RC65/R4. Roadmap of actions to strengthen the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in the European Region 2015–2025 ............ 58 EUR/RC65/R5. Priorities for health systems strengthening in the WHO European Region 2015–2020: walking the talk on people centredness ............................................... 59 EUR/RC65/R6. Tuberculosis action plan for the WHO European Region 2016–2020 ...... 62 EUR/RC65/R7. Date and place of regular sessions of the Regional Committee for Europe in 2016–2019 ........................................................................................................... 64 EUR/RC65(1). Promoting intersectoral action for health and well-being in the WHO European Region: health is a political choice ..........................................................