The 2015 European health report is now available for download and the ordering of printed copies in French, German and Russian. The report was released in English in September 2015 with intense media coverage.
The report shows a Europe that has achieved striking successes and is on track to hit several targets, such as reducing premature mortality and setting national targets for health. Life expectancy is steadily increasing, but the report also sounds the alarm, noting that the Region has the highest levels of tobacco and alcohol consumption in the world. Moreover, the gap in life expectancy at birth between countries is still more than 10 years, with Israel and Switzerland topping the chart for longevity. Tobacco and alcohol play a significant role in shortening lives, although progress has been made in reducing their use.
The report is WHO/Europe's analytical account of health in the European Region and its progress towards the targets set by Health 2020, WHO's overarching health policy. It also reveals a need to find and examine new kinds of evidence to understand the complex relationship between health, well-being and culture.
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 16.12.2015
The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. Reuters/Carlo Allegri
By Michelle Nichols – December 15, 2015
UNITED NATIONS The United Nations formally kicked off the race for the next secretary-general on Tuesday and the world body's 193 members were encouraged to consider putting forward a woman for the top job that has been held by a man for the past 70 years.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, is due to step down at the end of 2016 after serving two five-year terms. The job customarily rotates between regions, with Eastern Europe next on the list.
ABSTRACT
Gender inequality is a major part of the global jobs challenge. Appropriate responses require leveling the playing field and creating the types of jobs that can empower women. Gender inequality in the world of work has been stubbornly persistent across multiple dimensions, despite relatively large gains in recent decades in women's health and education. This report focuses on one dimension of inequality that is often related to other aspects of disadvantage. The starting point is the recognition that women are disadvantaged globally on virtually every indicator in the world of work - earnings, quality of employment, employment status, participation, and that these differences matter for development. The value added of this report is to revisit the key constraints to gender equality in the world of work in light of new evidence, and go more deeply into the importance of women's agency for boosting their participation in the world of work (and vice versa) using a lifecycle perspective. Global action is needed to fill knowledge gaps about the problems of, and the solutions to, gender inequality in the world of work.
A Social mobilization team engages with a group of local women and men in Lester road about promoting health and facilitating community acceptance of new surveillance, clinical care, and burial procedures. Freetown, Sierra Leone, 2014. Photo: UNMEER/Martine Perret
12 December 2015 – The United Nations is marking Universal Health Coverage Day with a strong call on countries to invest substantially in achieving affordable health care access worldwide to improve the lives of millions of people and contribute significantly towards achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“Our best defences against any health emergency are strong and resilient health systems that serve all people without exposing them to financial hardship.” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message on the Day.
He recalled that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by world leaders in September, envisaged universal health coverage and other important measures to ensure that children live into adulthood, mothers survive childbirth and countries strengthen their response to infectious and non-communicable diseases.
To galvanize action on health, the UN chief noted that in September he had launched theGlobal Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health. “Our aim, together with the Every Woman, Every Child movement, is to end preventable deaths among these groups and secure their well-being by helping countries to provide quality and affordable health care to all,” he explained.
This December 2015 report from Global Financial Integrity, “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2004-2013,” finds that developing and emerging economies lost US$7.8 trillion in illicit financial flows from 2004 through 2013, with illicit outflows increasing at an average rate of 6.5 percent per year—nearly twice as fast as global GDP.
This study is GFI’s 2015 annual global update on illicit financial flows from developing economies, and it is the sixth annual update of GFI’s groundbreaking 2008 report, “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries 2002-2006.” This is the first report to include estimates of illicit financial flows from developing countries in 2013—which the study pegs at US$1.1 trillion.
According to report and the Country Rankings by Largest Average Illicit Financial Flows, 2004-2013, Macedonia is on the 88th place from 149 countries, with 5,162 million dollars cumulative Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries.
Read the full report on the following link:
http://www.gfintegrity.org/report/illicit-financial-flows-from-developing-countries-2004-2013/
Source: Global Financial Integrity, by Dev Kar, Joseph Spanjers, - 08.12.2015
