Eight small countries in Europe join forces to improve health

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This project on small countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) aims to harness an understanding of the advantages of small-state governance and to be a catalyst for innovation policy development in larger countries.

Agreed in 2012 and financed through a grant from San Marino, WHO established the small countries project so that countries in the WHO European Region with a population of less than 1 million people (Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro and San Marino) can share their knowledge on implementing Health 2020.

Health ministers and other high-level officials from the eigth European countries with populations of under 1 million attended a meeting on 3-4 July 2014 to launch a project to improve their citizens' health and well-being, and implement the European policy framework, Health 2020.