Public Health Strategy for 2011-2017

The Public Health Strategy for 2011-2017 is a sectoral plan of Latvia. Its main objective is to prolong the healthy life years of the Latvian population and to prevent untimely deaths, while maintaining, improving and restoring health. More specifically, it provides to eliminate inequality in the field of health, by implementing measures to ensure equal opportunities for health to all Latvian inhabitants; to decrease morbidity and mortality from non-infectious diseases, decreasing the negative impact of risk factors upon health; to improve the health of mother and child, decrease infant mortality; to promote healthy and safe living and working environment, to decrease traumatism and mortality from external causes of death; to ensure effective management of healthcare system and use of resources, to ensure optimisation of resources and long-term sustainability of the healthcare system, as well as equal access for all Latvia’s inhabitants to those healthcare services, which are paid for from the state budget; to improve the health of mother and child, decrease infant mortality; to improve the health of mother and child, decrease infant mortality; to promote healthy and safe living and working environment, to decrease traumatism and mortality from external causes; to promote healthy and safe living and working environment, to decrease traumatism and mortality from external causes; to develop informative educational materials on preparing cheap and nutritional food to persons with low income; and to develop a draft legal act to restrict the amount of trans-acids in food products; to elaborate legal regulation on food rations at catering facilities in closed institutions.