[Report on the Who meeting on problems of prevention and control of stress]

The report informs of the Consultation organized by the World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe in Prague, 24.-26. June 1992. It was attended by 27 experts from 15 countries. The scope of the Consultation was to review effective approaches to stress management in the community setting. Considering the fact the growing number of persons and population groups in Europe Region are exposed to major stressful situations there is great need for help either from the health and social welfare system as well as from various non-professional organization. During the Consultation the definition of the stress management and prevention, examples of intervention programmes and particularly set of recommendation to the WHO and its Member States in European Region were elaborated.