Seychelles Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, 2016-2025

This Strategy focuses on the four major Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes and their four common behavioural risk factors, tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol, and therefore aims at reducing the preventable and avoidable burden of morbidity, mortality and disability due to NCDs to ensure that all inhabitants reach the highest attainable standards of health, quality of life, and productivity, by means of multisectoral interventions that enable people to adopt healthy behaviours and strengthening the health care system to identify and manage individuals at risk of NCDs. The objectives of the Strategy are: raising the priority accorded to the prevention and control of NCDs; strengthening national capacity, leadership, governance, partnerships and multisectoral action to accelerate the country’s response to the prevention and control of NCDs; reducing modifiable risk factors for NCDs in the population through creation of health-promoting environments; strengthening health systems to address the prevention and control of NCDs through people-centred primary health care and universal health coverage; promoting and supporting national capacity for high-quality research and development for the prevention and control of NCDs; monitoring the trends and determinants of NCDs and evaluate progress in their prevention and control.