• Q&A on safe food in markets 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2020‎, WHO/EURO:2020-1137-40883-55335)‏
      It is the role of governments to check that food handling, storage, transportation and preparation of food in markets is carried out in accordance with national rules and regulations. This includes clarifying roles and responsibilities among food safety agencies, allocating adequate resources, assessing risk factors for risk management and enforce legal requirements. Governments may also support the improvement of market environments and infrastructure, invest in training of vendors and education of consumers and share risk communication messages, ...
    • Quality assurance/monitoring of mental health services by service users and carers: Empowerment in Mental Health – Working together towards Leadership: a meeting in partnership with the European Commission hosted by EUFAMI: 27–28 October 2010, Leuven, Belgium 

      Wallcraft, Jan; Sweeney, Angela (‏2010‎, WHO/EURO:2010-4262-44025-62091)‏
      This paper summarizes what is currently known about the empowerment of people with mental health problems and their families/carers in relation to the quality assurance and monitoring of mental health services. It includes evidence from the literature about what works, as well as implications and options for policy-makers. It concludes with a number of practical recommendations for policy-makers, service providers and others.
    • Quality development in perinatal care - the OBSQID project : report on activities 1995-1996 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏1997‎, EUR/ICP/QCPH 03 02 03)‏
    • Quality development in perinatal care : report on the third WHO Workshop, Trieste, Italy, 18-20 October 1996 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏1997‎, EUR/ICP/QCPH 03 01 02)‏
      The WHO project on obstetrical quality development through the integrated use of telematics (‏OBSQID)‏ is aimed at continually and effectively promoting the development of quality in perinatal care, with an emphasis on obstetrics. The project involves an extensive network of health care professionals, authorities, researchers, professional associations and third-party payers throughout the WHO European Region. Workshops organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe have developed data collection tools for the project. At the Third Workshop on ...
    • Quality development in perinatal care : the OBSQID project : report on a WHO meeting, Oporto, Portugal 23-24 June 2000 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2000‎, EUR/00/5016725)‏
      Continuous quality of care development entails (‏a)‏ health care providers comparing their outcomes with those of their peers and (‏b)‏ the identification, through data collection and analysis, of centres demonstrating best practice and the most rational use of technology in order that their knowledge and expertise may be disseminated and exploited. To this end, the Quality of Health Systems Programme has facilitated consensus across Europe on health indicators within various medical specialties. These indicators and variables are compiled in data ...
    • Quality development in perinatal care : the OBSQID Project : report on the fifth WHO workshop, Nof Ginossar, Israel 29 October-1 November 1998 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏1999‎, EUR/ICP/QCPH 03 02 03(‏B)‏)‏
      The obstetrical quality indicators and data collection (‏OBSQID)‏ project for quality management and development in perinatal care involves an extensive network of health care authorities, researchers, professional associations and third-party payers throughout the WHO European Region. Previous workshops organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe have focused on the development and refinement of two standardized, pan-European data collection tools: the case-based OBSQID basic information sheet and the OBSQID perinatal aggregated data sheet. ...
    • Quality development in perinatal care : the OBSQID Project : report on the fourth WHO workshop, Poznan, Poland, 23-25 October 1997 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏1998‎, EUR/ICP/QCPH 03 02 03(‏A)‏)‏
      The obstetrical quality indicators and data collection (‏OBSQID)‏ project for quality development in perinatal care involves an extensive network of health care professionals, authorities, researchers, professional associations and third-party payers throughout the WHO European Region. Workshops organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe have developed and refined data collection tools for the project. The objective of the Fourth Workshop was to further quality development and the appropriate use of technology in perinatal care. The Workshop ...
    • Quality development in perinatal care : the OBSQID project : report on the seventh WHO workshop, Budapest, Hungary 2-3 November 2001 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2002‎, EUR/02/5016725)‏
      At the Sixth Workshop in 2000, initial steps were taken to decentralize the Project to national and international partners with longstanding involvement in OBSQID. Satellite activities undertaken within specific areas of perinatal care, such as neonatal care, diabetes in pregnancy and multiple births, have gained their own momentum. At this Seventh Workshop, these plans for transfer and decentralization matured into concrete action plans that will ensure continued implementation of the Project throughout Europe. Responsibility for the Project ...
    • Quality of care review in Kyrgyzstan: working document 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2018‎, WHO/EURO:2018-3039-42797-59720)‏
      Many policies, institutions and mechanisms for improving quality are present in Kyrgyzstan. However, quality is driven by top-down approach rather than inherent in the work of clinical teams and embedded in training and continuing professional development. The recently established quality committees at the facility provide a potential platform for improvement. External assessment and inspection provide little support for organizational development, benchmarking, improving performance or public accountability and routinely collected data on the ...
    • Quality of life assessment : instrument to measure self-perceived functioning and wellbeing in the elderly (‏LEIPAD PROJECT)‏ / by D. De Leo ... [‏et al.]‏ 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe; Zucchetto, M; Trabucchi, M; Lönnqvist, Jouko; Grigoletto, F; Sampaio Faria, J.G; Cleiren, M; Diekstra, René F. W; De Leo, Diego (‏1994)‏
    • Quality of primary health care in Georgia 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2018‎, WHO/EURO:2018-3316-43075-60287)‏
      This report presents the findings of an assessment of quality of care in primary health care in Georgia. To advance the agenda for universal health coverage in Georgia, this work was set out to support the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs in operationalizing the Primary Health Care Strategic Plan 2016–2023. The report presents policy directions to strengthen the quality of primary health care.
    • Quantification of health effects of exposure to air pollution : report on a WHO working group, Bilthoven, Netherlands 20-22 November 2000 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2001‎, EUR//01/5026342)‏
      Quantifying the impact of air pollution on the public's health has become an increasingly critical component in policy discussion. Those responsible for any health impact assessment must address important methodological issues related to both its design and conduct. A WHO Working Group examined several of these issues as they applied specifically to assessments of air pollution. The Group concluded that the most complete estimates of both attributable numbers of deaths and average reductions in life-span associated with exposure to air pollution ...
    • Quantification of health effects related to SO2, NO2, O3 and particulated matter exposure : report from the Nordic Expert Meeting, Oslo, 15-17 October 1995 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe; Krzyzanowski, Michal; Clench-Aas, J; Nordic Expert Meeting (‏1995: Oslo, Norway)‏ (‏1995‎, EUR/ICP/EHAZ 94 04/DT01)‏
      Estimates of exposure-response relationships are needed to assess the health impact of environmental factors. Based on available research evidence, the relationships for the common air pollutants - particulate matter, sulphur dioxide (‏SO2)‏, ozone (‏O3)‏ and nitrogen dioxide (‏NO2)‏ - were reviewed by the Nordic Expert Meeting. The Meeting was organized by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research in collaboration with the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, and with the financial support of the Nordic Council of Ministers. The report of ...
    • Quantifying burden of disease from environmental noise: second technical meeting: Bern, Switzerland, 15–16 December 2005: report 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2007‎, WHO/EURO:2007-8722-48494-72050EU/07/5072454)‏
      A group of international experts met to review and discuss the preliminary assessment of burden of disease (‏BoD)‏ from environmental noise in Bern, Switzerland, on 15-16 December 2005. Experts provided background documents and made presentations reviewing the detailed methods and preliminary results of BoD assessment for selected noise-related outcomes: Cardiovascular disease, Sleep disturbance and annoyance, Hearing loss and tinnitus, and Cognitive impairment. For each topic, the state-of-the-art review was made regarding the exposure data, ...
    • Quantifying disease from inadequate housing: editorial review meeting: Bonn, Germany, 8–9 September 2008 

      WHO Regional Office for Europe (‏2009‎, WHO/EURO:2009-8570-48342-71773)‏
      The WHO European Centre for Environment and Health is addressing the question "how much human health is negatively affected by inadequate housing?" to support European policy-makers. To review and assess the first compilation draft quantifying the environmental burden of disease (‏EBD)‏ for housing-health linkages, selected experts were invited to an editorial review meeting in Bonn. The meeting participants reviewed all chapters and provided advice to WHO on the EBD assessments and their evidence base. Comments will be forwarded to the authors of ...
    • Quantitative and qualitative analysis of Ukraine’s emergency medical services to assess current capacities and opportunities for future development 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2020‎, WHO/EURO:2020-5573-45338-64883)‏
      WHO conducted a qualitative and quantitative survey of emergency medical services (‏EMS)‏ across Ukraine in 2019 to build a comprehensive picture of the challenges and opportunities facing EMS. The study used a range of methods for collecting and analysing data. In general terms, it was a cross-sectional study with retrospective elements. Qualitative and quantitative components were included to cover all levels of the EMS system, from regional health administrative staff to ambulance drivers, with end-user patients included. EMS systems and prehospital ...
    • Quantitative and qualitative analysis of Ukraine’s emergency medical services to assess current capacities and opportunities for future development: report from Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2020‎, WHO/EURO:2020-5574-45339-64884)‏
      Emergency medical services (‏EMS)‏ systems and prehospital care are vital in saving lives and decreasing morbidities, but are difficult to evaluate because they are interrelated. This survey aims to provide evidence-based recommendations to improve the overall quality of EMS in Ukraine, with a special focus on the oblasts (‏administrative regions)‏ of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
    • Quatrième réunion du Conseil ministériel européen de l’environnement et de la santé (‏CMES)‏ : rapport de la réunion : Belgrade (‏Serbie)‏, 19 avril 2013 

      Organisation mondiale de la Santé. Bureau régional de l’Europe (‏2013‎, WHO/EURO:2013-6367-46133-66739)‏
      Lors de sa quatrième réunion (‏Belgrade, Serbie, 19 avril 2013)‏, le Conseil ministériel européen de l’environnement et de la santé (‏CMES)‏ a débattu du rapport qui sera présenté lors de la soixantetroisième session du Comité régional de l’OMS pour l’Europe et de la dix-neuvième session du Comité des politiques de l’environnement de la CEE-ONU ; a examiné les récentes données scientifiques sur la qualité de l’air et la santé ; s’est déclaré favorable à la révision des valeurs guides de l’OMS pour la qualité de l’air et de la politique de l’UE en la ...
    • Quelles sont les causes de la fracture sanitaire ? Aide-mémoire n° 2 

      Organisation mondiale de la Santé. Bureau régional de l'Europe (‏2019‎, WHO/EURO:2019-3529-43288-60666)‏
      Lorsque l’on examine les facteurs systématiques qui contribuent à des écarts de santé criants, on cite souvent en premier les dysfonctionnements des systèmes de santé et la mauvaise qualité des services de santé. Mais l’analyse du Rapport de situation sur l’équité en santé montre que si les services de santé jouent effectivement un rôle important dans les inégalités de santé, et donc dans l’instauration de l’équité en santé, d’autres facteurs essentiels sont également à l’œuvre. Le rapport répertorie les cinq facteurs essentiels suivants qui sont ...
    • Questions and answers about human papillomavirus (‏HPV)‏ 

      World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe (‏2020‎, WHO/EURO:2020-5631-45396-64962)‏
      Human papillomavirus (‏HPV)‏ is a virus that infects the skin or various mucous membranes. There are over 200 types of HPV. Some HPV types, known as high-risk types, are sexually transmitted and can cause cervical and other cancers. Low-risk HPV types can cause common warts, verrucae, warts in the genital region, or in rare cases wart-like growths in the airway passages, causing recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (‏RRP)‏. This publication provides answers to commonly asked questions about HPV for parents, health professionals, adolescents and young adults.