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Strategies

The NPH department targets NCD prevention and health promotion on different levels, with strong emphasis on national policies. The work concerns also defined settings (schools, communities, organizations of national scope), risk factors (unhealthy nutrition, physical inactivity), and populations of different ages (life course; youth, ageing).

Sustained and major improvements in public health will most likely be achieved through comprehensive programmes that build national capacity to conduct evidence-based health promotion and disease prevention programmes in order to establish supportive public policies. WHO will provide global leadership in the development and diffusion of innovative and effective health promotion and disease prevention programmes so as to help ameliorate some of the expected adverse consequences of globalisation, and to prevent the dire NCD burden projections from becoming a reality.

WHO will support Member States in strengthening their capacity for NCD prevention and health promotion, and incorporating it into national plans, with emphasis on programme implementation and evaluation. WHO will plan training events, capacity building activities, and programme evaluation skills in support of national and community programmes, in collaboration with Regional Offices, and with special focus on broad NCD prevention networks.