Public health in Estonia 2008: an analysis of public health operations, services and activities
Abstract
Since the end of the twentieth century, both public health as a discipline and public health services inEurope have faced unprecedented challenges. Estonian public health services (PHS) have undergoneextensive reform since 1990, as part of broader health sector reforms. Following European Unionaccession, the landscape of public health has been reshaped in many areas, most importantly through thenew National Health Plan 2009–2020, which sets out the basis of further improvements. This hascoincided with the evaluation of PHS undertaken by a team of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, at theinvitation of the Ministry of Social Affairs and its Public Health Department. The growing challenges to thehealth system in Estonia are mainly public health challenges: addressing the high incidence (which peakedin 2001) and prevalence of HIV, and addressing and reversing lifestyle and behavioural factors thatcontribute to ill health, such as tobacco use, alcohol consumption, low levels of physical activity andobesity.Citation
Koppel, Agris, Leventhal, Alex, Sedgley, Mike & WHO Regional Office for Europe. (2009). Public health in Estonia 2008: an analysis of public health operations, services and activities. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/107264