strategy
Strengthening primary health care systems to control communicable diseases
Synonyms:
Controlling environmental factors influencing spread of communicable diseasesStrengthening national public health systems to control communicable diseases
Context:
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 recommends the identification of environmental hazards and social factors in the causation of communicable diseases. It also recommends strengthening prevention programmes which particularly emphasize adequate and balanced nutrition. Broader:
Strengthening systemsEstablishing primary health careEstablishing primary health careImplementing environmental health strategyStrengthening national capacities for environmental health interventions Narrower:
Building healthy housesUndertaking environmental management measures to control disease vectors Subjects:
Medicine → PathologyCommunication → Influencing
Health Care → Health
Health Care → Care
Government → Public
Cybernetics → Control
→ Systems
Environment → Environment
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
