The challenge of public health transition in South Eastern Europe

Abstract

The transition countries in the region of South Eastern Europe (SEE) share the historical burden of communism and four centuries of Ottoman dominance. In spite of deep, inherited rifts, they are going to develop multilateral collaboration as expressed in the Dubrovnik Declaration of 2001. Recently, a common public health strategy was drafted and a regional Forum for Public Health agreed upon. This special issue of the Journal of Public Health provides an overview of relevant developments in SEE with reference to new schools of public health and national public health associations. © Springer-Verlag 2006.