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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on April 6, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(3):234-236; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl045
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

Commentary

Public health in the Balkan region: one school's experience

Jeffrey Levett and John Kyriopoulos

National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece

Correspondence: Jeffrey Levett, 196 Leoforos Alexandras, Athens 115 21, Greece, tel: +30 210 6433980, fax: +30 210 6433980, e-mail: jelevett@otenet.gr

Received May 15, 2005, accepted March 3, 2006

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   Europe and the Balkans
 
Major improvements in European health status occurred throughout the 20th century. These gains were less evident in the Balkans. At the beginning of the 21st century, most of the countries in the region are lacking in reforms and their health sectors demonstrate dysfunction. The disease profile is a complex blend of a repetitious past, diseases of development, and the consequences of socio-economic upheaval and disasters. The opportunity to achieve ‘health for all’ is largely absent. Health data reveal growing disparity within the region and significantly higher vulnerability than in Europe. They lag behind Europe in economic development and political stability but unevenly so, with low GNP, limited modernization, corruption, unemployment, and poverty.1–4


   Working in the Balkans
 
The Athens School of Public Health identified opportunities for action, circa 1988, from which a modest regional policy emerged and funding materialized. It has enabled the cultivation of inter-country relations, contacts, and connections with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Activity backdrop
 

   Regional comparisons and issues
 

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