Providing services that promote healthy lives

Facilitating activities that promote long life

Description

Providing services that promote healthy lives involves ensuring accessible, affordable, and effective health interventions that address prevention, treatment, and health education. This strategy targets reducing disease burden, improving nutrition, supporting mental health, and fostering healthy behaviors through community outreach, vaccination, screening, and counseling. By removing barriers to care and empowering individuals with knowledge and resources, these services directly remedy health disparities and preventable illnesses, supporting overall well-being and societal productivity.

Context

Compared to the beginning of this century, contemporary health care services and continuing advances in medical technology have dramatically increased people's longevity and standards of health. At present, however, common and preventable infectious diseases kill millions of children each year, and parasitic infections such as malaria kill or weaken many adults and impose a heavy burden on society. Simple remedies and medicines could save many such lives, yet are not being made sufficiently available. Primary health care needs to be strengthened in many countries.