Table 3 Areas for public health action in Europe
From: Perceived challenges to public health in Central and Eastern Europe: a qualitative analysis
Activities | Goals |
|---|---|
1. Engaging the public | |
- To raise public awareness about public health and its significance | - Stronger public health policy |
- To create a large public lobbying body for healthy behaviour through sophisticated social marketing strategies | - Stronger public health funding |
2. Creating a scientific base for public health | |
- To conduct cost-effectiveness studies | - Proof of the effectiveness of public health for the public good |
- To create public database for all on-going public health related-research | |
- To conduct large scale studies | |
3. Developing best practice interventions | |
- To ensure adequate funding for studies | - Facilitation of best possible public health interventions |
- To allocate evaluation funds in every study | - Development of good public health practice and research |
4. Implementing registries and surveillance systems | |
- To implement registries for infectious diseases | - Preparation for new pandemics |
- To implement alert systems for increase in imported infectious diseases | - Preparation for changing disease patterns due to changing living and travel conditions |
- To train physicians accordingly | |