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, including preventive care, treatment, and health education. This strategy targets reducing disease burden, improving well-being, and addressing health inequities by delivering essential medical, nutritional, and psychosocial support. Key actions include expanding primary healthcare, immunization, maternal and child health services, and community outreach, directly remedying barriers to health and enabling populations to achieve and maintain optimal physical and mental health.

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.