Health Sector Strategic Plan 2020-2024.

This strategic Plan for the health sector aims to ensure the enhancement of health sector development in the republic of Mauritius, including Rodrigues and the Outer Islands, in order to further improve positive health outcomes for the individual, the family, the community and the economy at large, for the period 2020 to 2024. The specific objectives of the policy are: reorient and strengthen Primary Health Care Services to act as "gatekeepers" for patients’ access to hospitals with focus on people centered services; improve quality of care and efficiency measures at all levels of care and strenghthen evidence-based decision making; respond to the healthcare needs of the population and ensure a patient-centric approach; refocus expenditure on health promotion and Primary Health Care Services; accelerate progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3; and strengthen results based approach for efficient management of human resources and healthcare technology.
Notably, the policy contains several actions on nutrition, such as strengthening education and sensitization programmes from an early childhood age and throughout schooling age on health matters such as healthy lifestyles, hygiene, nutrition, physical activity, sexual, emotional and reproductive health, substance abuse, violence and healthy environment.