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Armenia and Belarus shared the best practices on implementation of national information strategies on healthy lifestyles promotion

28 March 2024
Armenia and Belarus shared the best practices on implementation of national information strategies on healthy lifestyles promotion

On March 27, 2024, the second meeting of the CIS Network of Institutes for Public Health and Healthcare Digital Transformation was held, which was dedicated to the Strategy "Population Health of the CIS member states" for 2024-2025.

Certain objectives for this period:

  • Health promotion and NCDs prevention;
  • Assessing the effectiveness of implemented measures;
  • Systematic training in healthy lifestyle skills;
  • Analyzing the achievement of the Strategy’s national target indicators in the CIS member states;
  • Strengthening international cooperation.

Expected results of plan realization in 2024-2025.

  1. Increase in life expectancy at birth;
    (in the Russian Federation - this is an indicator of the national goal)
  2. Decrease in mortality from NCDs;
  3. Decrease in alcohol consumption;
  4. Reducing smoking prevalence;
  5. Reducing high blood pressure prevalence;
  6. Increasing the level of physical activity;
  7. Increasing the coverage of preventive measures for all population categories, including children and adolescents;
  8. Reducing the prevalence of obesity and diabetes among children and adults;
  9. Reducing the prevalence of excessive and irrational nutrition;
  10. Decrease in average salt (sodium chloride) consumption among the population;
  11. Development of the state system of NCDs prevention and healthy lifestyle promotion among the population;
  12. Reducing the spread rate of HIV infection and viral hepatitis.

Olga Kobyakova, Chairperson of the Governing Council of the CIS Network of Institutes for Public Health and Healthcare Digital Transformation, Director of Russian Research Institute of Health (RIH), noted in her welcoming speech that by joining efforts it is possible to achieve the set goals faster, find the best solutions to improve availability and quality of healthcare.

Presentations were made by representatives of Armenia and Belarus.

Diana Adenasyan, Deputy Director of S. Avdalbekyan National Institute of Health of Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia, emphasized that the problem of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is one of the most acute problems of healthcare systems all over the world, so it is important to develop information strategies to promote healthy lifestyle. In Armenia, there are special programs on healthy lifestyle introduction and maintenance in different age categories. From early childhood, the population is taught the rules of healthy eating and is told about the harmfulness of bad habits.

Anastasia Kosova, Head of the Department of Public Health and Social and Hygienic Monitoring of the Republican Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, spoke on behalf of the Republic of Belarus. She shared the peculiarities of interaction with the population through advertising information. The country has a unified state program on safety, hygienic training and education of the population. For example, advertising of tobacco smoke and alcoholic beverages is prohibited (with the exception of beer drinks on TV channels at night), which has a positive effect on reducing tobacco and alcoholic beverages consumption among the country population.

During the meeting, it was proposed to analyze the effectiveness and finalize the national target indicators specified in the Strategy "Population Health of the CIS member states". Daria Khalturina, Head of RIH Department of Risk Factor Prevention and Communication Technologies in Healthcare, took this initiative. The proposal was supported by the participants.

At the end of the meeting, Denis Tyufilin, Head of RIH Strategic Healthcare Development Department, told about the study of dietary traditions and food culture in the Russian Federation, which was conducted by RIH experts. It was held among residents of all Russian regions and is currently in the final stage of formalization. The aim of the study is to find out what really influences the way we choose food, how we organize our daily diet, what influences the way we eat, when we eat and with whom we eat. Colleagues from other countries were offered methodological assistance if they wanted to conduct the same study in their country. The study was well received by foreign colleagues.

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