strategy
Developing national strategies for the integrated control of communicable diseases
Synonyms:
Developing national health action plans to control communicable diseases Implementation:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.Agenda 21 suggests that efforts to prevent and control diseases should include investigations of epidemiological, social and economic bases for development of more effective national strategies for the integrated control of communicable diseases. Cost-effective methods of environmental control should be adapted to local developmental conditions.
Claim:
Each national government, should consider developing a national health action plan with appropriate international assistance and support, in accordance with national plans for public health priorities and objectives. Broader:
Developing strategiesDeveloping action planDeveloping action planDeveloping national public health servicesAdopting planning approaches serving multiple goals Facilitates:
Developing health care policy Facilitated by:
Developing national health policy for climate change References:
Laboratory Centre for Disease Control: Canadian Contingency Plan for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and Other Related DiseasesJamison, D T, Mosley, W H, Measham, A R and Bobadilla, J L: Disease control priorities in developing countries Subjects:
Medicine → PathologyAction → Action
Health Care → Health
Cybernetics → Control
Strategy → Strategy
Development → Development
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
