strategy
Establishing preventive health care
Synonyms:
Enabling full preventive healthSupplying preventive health care
Reinforcing preventive health measures
Upgrading preventive health care
Effecting preventive health processes
Providing preventive health care
Description:
Installing measures which deter ill health, especially the spread of epidemics. These include building sanitation systems, teaching good hygiene, making available clean water, supplying adequate nutrition, providing appropriate exercise and ensuring access to health services, especially for mothers and young children. Counter Claim:
Disease naturally limits human numbers, especially in rigorous environments which cannot support large populations. Tampering with this fundamental life process can only create more suffering than it eases. Broader:
UpgradingDeveloping health systemsSafeguarding public healthProviding public health servicesEstablishing extended health careEnabling thorough preventive measures Narrower:
Using holistic medicineEnsuring a healthy environmentPreventing avoidable blindnessTeaching basic health practicesInitiating effective oral hygieneSupplying basic nutritional needsReducing health risk of menopauseSupplying family planning servicesImproving understanding of hygieneCorrecting iodine deficiency disordersProviding sufficient preventive sanitationCoordinating local preventive health programmesStrengthening comprehensive health care for womenStrengthening preventative and curative health services for indigenous people Facilitates:
Achieving health for all Facilitated by:
Maximizing health care opportunities Problems:
Ignorance of health and hygieneSubjects:
Commerce → Purchasing, supplyingIndustry → Construction
Societal Problems → Prevention
Research, Standards → Quality unification
Health Care → Health
Health Care → Care
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
