The 2030 National Health Plan (Plan Nacional de Saúde (PNS), 2030), an essential instrument of health governance which sets out the strategic guidelines for health policy with a view to reducing inequalities and increasing the population’s well-being throughout the life cycle, was approved.
This PNS 2030 is based on the identification of the population’s main health needs and expectations, establishing as major goals: the reduction of inequalities; the promotion of the development of healthy behaviours; the minimization of the consequences of climate change and other environmental determinants on health; the reduction in an integrated manner of the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases; and keeping under control health problems at risk of increasing, emerging or re-emerging.
The PNS 2030 is aligned with the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and resulted from of a widely participated process, involving the technical and scientific support of experts, the participation of more than 100 organizations both inside and outside the health sector, and the contribution of 114 entities and citizens who participated in the public consultation.
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