National Health Promotion Policy of Sierra Leone.

This Policy addresses the risk factors and the determinants of health that contribute to preventable ill-health, disability and premature deaths, by setting out the goal, vision, mission, objectives, and guiding principles of health promotion in Sierra Leone. The vision of the Policy aims at strengthening the importance of health promotion by integrating its initiative into various health programmes, reaching diverse population groups and addressing disease specific concerns; the mission provides Health promotion policy guidance for addressing risk factors and the underlying determinants of preventable health issues, disability, and premature deaths; the goal of the Policy is to encourage and enable individuals, communities, and societies to improve and maintain their overall health and well-being, empowering people to make healthy choices, adopt healthy lifestyles, and take actions that reduce their risk of illness and enhance their quality of life. The Policy specifies the following objectives to implement its goal: providing an adequate framework for coordination and management of health promotion activities, addressing risk factors and social determinants of health across programs, disease-specific issues, and population groups; advocating for sustainable health promotion practice, capacity building, financing options; supporting mainstreaming of health promotion across health and non-health sectors, priority public health programmes and population groups to reduce the disease burden and premature deaths from preventable causes including social determinants of health; strengthening modalities for responding to emerging health threats from climate change and epidemics; facilitating establishment of new and strengthen ongoing partnerships, alliances, and networks at national, regional, and global level to promote health; improving financing and resource allocation for health promotion.