TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Members of the Expert Team for the National Health Programme Revision
• INTERSECTORAL TASK-FORCE FOR THE NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMME COORDINATION

I. NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMME: THE POLICY OBJECTIVES AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

1. Prerequisites for health
2. Health promotion
3. Public health policy
4. National Health Programme the policy objectives and guiding principles

II. MOST SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARDS AND MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEMS

1. MOST SERIOUS HEALTH HAZARDS:
   • Health-damaging behaviour
   • Hazards in the social environment
   • Hazards in the physical environment
2. MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEMS
   • The overall health situation
   • Infant mortality
   • Diseases of the circulatory system
   • Malignant neoplasms
   • Injury and poisoning
   • Diseases of the respiratory and digestive systems
   • Mental disorders
   • Communicable diseases
   • Occupational diseases
   • Disability
   • Dental caries and periodontal disease
3. INEQUALITY IN HEALTH
   • Gender
   • Areas of residence
   • Region of residence
   • Social differences

III. NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMME - OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS

• STRATEGIC TARGET
• OPERATIONAL TARGETS

1. Promoting physical activity among the general population
2. Promoting healthy diet and improving food quality
3. Reducing tobacco smoking
4. Reducing alcohol consumption, changing alcohol consumption patterns, and reducing alcohol abuse-related health damage
5. Reducing abuse of other psychoactive substances and drug abuse-related health damage
6. Improving efficiency of health education and health promotion programmes
7. Promoting mental health and preventing mental disorders
8. Reducing exposure to harmful factors in the living, working and educational evironment and mitigating their health effects
9. Improving sanitation throuhout the country
10. Reducing the incidence of accidents, and traffic accidents in particular
11. Improving efficiency and effectiveness of emergency services in life threatening conditions
12. Improving access to and quality of primary health care
13. Preventing premature births, low birth weight and reducing related health effects
14. Improving early diagnosis and active care of persons at risk of ischaemic heart disease
15. Improving early diagnosis and treatment of breast and cervical cancers
16. Providing better opportunities for people with disabilities and developing their capacities to lead active lives
17. Improving prevention of communicable diseases
18. Improving prevention of dental caries and periodontal disease in children, adolescents and pregnant women

    IV. EXPECTED HEALTH GAIN IN THE POPULATION BY THE YEAR 2005

    V. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMME

    1. Participants
    2. The requirements for NHP implementation
    3. Monitoring and evaluation of outcomes
    4. Financing of the NHP implementation

    VI. NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMME 1996-2005 CONCEPT AND STRUCTURE
    
    
    
    

    National Health Programme

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