We are just less than a week before the 32nd Plenary of the South-eastern Europe Health Network (SEEHN) starts its wok in Podgorica, Montenegro under the Presidency of the Minister of Health, Professor Miodrag Radunovic.
This event will be attended by the
national health coordinators of the Member States to the SEEHN, the partner
countries and partner international organizations, directors of the SEEHN
Regional Health Development Centers (RHDC) and the Ambassadors of the SEEHN
Member States accredited to Montenegro.
The purpose of the meeting will be
to discuss the SEEHN major developments, activities and challenges during the
term of the Montenegro Presidency (SEEHN Presidency report June - December,
2013). During the Plenary the SEEHN partnerships in public health will be
further expanded by signing Memoranda of Cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Association of Neurosurgeons in the SEE and the SEE Occupational
Health Medicine Association.
In follow up to the commitments of
the SEE Ministers of Health as stipulated in their Banja Luka Pledge, endorsed
during their Third Ministerial Forum in 2011, as well as based on the current
developments in the SEE Regional Cooperation Process related to the SEE 2020
Growth Strategy, the 32nd Plenary will deal with two important
strategic issues:
· Discussing and approving the health chapter, objectives, measures and
health indicators that will be an undisputable and inseparable part of the
Inclusive Growth pillar of the SEE 2020 Growth Strategy. This is on one side a
unique development in public health in the SEE region to implement and
contribute as a network of 10 countries to the WHO Europe Health 2020 Policy
and European Action Plan on Strengthening Public Health Capacities and Services.
On the other side, the recognition of health as a contributor to growth,
economic development and employment under the Regional Cooperation Process will
bring new opportunities to the SEEHN Member States to improve further the
health of their populations and to deal with the social determinants of health
and inequities in the region, between and within the 10 countries;
· Providing
an overview on the regional efforts and cooperation in
accelerating national action to reduce the burden of NCDs as a way of enhancing
human, social and economic development across the whole of government and whole
of society as well as in post-2015 development goals;
Additionally, the Plenary will
discuss and take important decisions on the following both technical and
business issues of major priority:
· Outcome of the EC/TAIEX Workshop on Reduction of Excessive Salt Intake in the SEE, 25-26 November 2013, Podgorica, and will approve a Decision for concerted actions of the SEEHN Member States to that effect;
· SEEHN Strategy and Action Plan for the cooperation with the EC/TAIEX in 2014;· Decision on the Procedures of the Regional Health Development Centers (RHDCs) of the SEEHN;
· Activities, achievements, challenges and future actions of the RHDC ;
· SEEHN Secretariat Programme, Administrative and Financial Issues and ongoing activities:
- Country contributions for the years 2013 and 2014;
- Post descriptions for the permanent staff of the Secretariat;
- SEEHN Secretariat financial report;
- SEEHN Secretariat financial plan, and
- Road Map for the SEEHN activities and the SEEHN
Calendar of Events in 2014 under the Romanian Presidency of the SEEHN (01
January – 30 June 2014).
Finally, during
the 32nd Plenary Meeting of the SEE Health Network the Council of Europe, a
founding partner to the SEEHN since the onset in 2001, will launch the report
of a study on health as a human right and the important issue of health literacy of the
citizens of the region.
WELCOME TO MONTENEGRO
The Presidency and the Executive Committee of the SEE Health Network
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