Summary:
The National Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases provides an action plan to address non-communicable diseases as well as the main risk factors.
Description:
The National Strategic Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases aims to prevent and control the four main non-communicable diseases:
- cardiovascular diseases,
- diabetes,
- cancer, and
- chronic respiratory diseases.
Moreover, it addresses the four main risk factors, as the following:
- unhealthy diet,
- physical inactivity,
- harmful use of alcohol and,
- tobacco use.
It includes, among others, a specific outcome of reducing unhealthy diet and overweight/obesity (Outcome 2). In this sense, there are two outputs and expected results, namely:
- enhancing strategies and mechanisms for healthy nutrition (Output/Expected Result 1) and
- enhancing the implementation of strategies and interventions for conflict of interest (Output/Expected Result 2).
The goal of the programme is to improve health by reducing the risk factors for and the burden of non-communicable diseases.