Join us as we continue to celebrate nurses and midwives this month! How do we invest in and empower one of the most essential resources for health? 👩🏽‍⚕️👩🏾‍⚕️🧑🏾‍⚕️🧑🏿‍⚕️👩🏿‍⚕️

📅13 May 2024
⌚12:00 - 13:30 PM Cairo (GMT+3)

Register: who-e.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

#IND2024

“Nurses and midwives are vital to ensure strong health systems, healthy communities and healthy economies. Investment in health is a precondition of sustainable economic and social development.”

- Dr HananBalkhyحنان بلخي, WHO EMRO Regional Director

#IND2024

During the Regional Committee #EMRC70 in October 2023, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Member States called for accelerated action to invest in and empower our health workforce. As WHO Regional Director, I'm heeding this urgent call with a flagship initiative to support this action. It's time to

On #InternationalNursesDay , I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the nurses and midwives giving compassionate care to their patients despite the challenges and long hours.

The Eastern Mediterranean Region has only 15.9 nurses per 10 000 people, less than half the

“I wanted to become a midwife to provide a humanitarian service.”

“The main challenges I face include managing heavy workloads and coping with limited staffing and resources.”

Hear from nurses and midwives first-hand about their passion, aspirations and challenges.

#IND2024

Join World Health Organization (WHO) and panelists from countries, World Organisation for Animal Health, CDC and Resolve to Save Lives this FRIDAY 19TH at 11.30 CEST for the LAUNCH of “WHO Benchmarks for Strengthening Health Emergency Capacities”
Register at bit.ly/3VLRI2d

'Public health aims to improve the health of the population rather than saving money...just because an intervention does not generate cost-savings it does not mean the national health system should not adopt it...'

Today is Eid - but not for many who no more have any to celebrate with.

This morning, i received a picture from my life-long mentor Prof Rita Giacaman: us preparing the launch of the landmark 2009 Lancet Series of Health in occupied Palestinian Territory.

A lot of hope (then)!

الحصول على الرعاية الصحية حق أساسي من حقوق الإنسان، ولكن هذا الحق لا يزال بعيدًا كل البُعد بالنسبة إلى الكثيرين في إقليمنا

ودون إتاحة الرعاية الصحية، يتعرض الحق في الحياة للخطر. ويمكننا معًا إعادة تشكيل مشهد عدم المساواة في مجال الرعاية الصحية

#يوم_الصحة_العالمي

On #WorldHealthDay , we reaffirm that health is a human right for everyone, everywhere. This is why we continue to strive to achieve universal health coverage ( #UHC ) and health security. They are not just goals, but rights.

#MyHealthMyRight

'One of the main challenges in operationalizing the PHC approach has been the lengthy tradition of vertical disease control program management, which, although demonstrating results, has been critiqued for lack of efficiency, establishment of parallel funding and planning

A lot was published on Health System Resilience, using different perspectives & various disciplines’ frameworks.

Our new paper analyses the concept of resilience & identifies its attributes, antecedents & consequences, with application to Heallth Sys.

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I am happy to share our latest publication on concept analysis of health system resilience with Awad MATARIA Salman Rawaf Celine Tabche, Manal AlZadjali and sohel saikat
…alth-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

76 years since our founding, World Health Organization (WHO) remains totally committed to the highest attainable standard of health, as a fundamental right for all people, everywhere.

This Sunday is #WorldHealthDay . We call on all people to demand #MyHealthMyRight !

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UNDRR Arab States Awad MATARIA 3/3 'الهدف الثالث هو دراسة محددات الصحة الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والسياسية. والهدف الرابع مرتبط بالشراكات وأهمية التعاون ما بين المؤسسات المختلفة.'

- د. عوض مطرية، مدير التغطية الصحية الشاملة في WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

Awad MATARIA

Join our press conference on:

Harnessing Synergies between Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Reduction in Migrant-Inclusive Health System Responses Programme

🗓️Thursday, 4 April 2024
🕛12:00 Cairo Time (GMT+2)

📹live stream in English on X, and in Arabic on Facebook & YouTube

انضموا إلى المؤتمر الصحفي بشأن الاستفادة من أوجه التآزر بين التكيف مع تغير المناخ والحد من المخاطر في استجابات النظام الصحي الشاملة للمهاجرين

🗓️الخميس، 4 نيسان/أبريل 2024
🕛12:00 ظهرًا بتوقيت القاهرة (GMT+2)

سيكون البث المباشر بالإنجليزية على X وبالعربية على فيسبوك ويوتيوب

Lebanon's health system faces multiple challenges, from hosting 1.5 million Syrian refugees to hostilities in the south targeting facilities and ambulances. Given this situation, Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon needs sustainable financing to maintain results as it continues to pursue health reforms.

📢 We are pleased to share with you our New Publication! Explore our latest study on #UHC in Morocco, revealing a bottom-up estimation of public hospitals' financing size using a comprehensive costing database.

حقّقت منظمة الصحة العالمية ووزارة الصحة اللبنانية أهدافا مرحلية استراتيجية مثل الاستراتيجية الوطنية للصحة. وسنستمر في العمل معا إلى مدى أبعد من الطوارئ الصحية، مثل الإصلاحات الصحية والحلول الصحية المحلية، من أجل نظام صحيّ أكثر قدرة على الصمود يستطيع تحمّل الصدمات في المستقبل.