Achieving this outcome requires strengthening the capacity of the health system to prevent and better manage NCDs, mental health conditions, disabilities, and unintentional injuries, and provide better care for survivors of violence based on the primary care approach. This involves capacity building, scaled-up, quality services, and multisectoral policies that improve health outcomes toward the attainment of the highest level of health for all throughout the life course. Specifically, the following actions will be implemented:
- Strengthen national capacity, leadership, governance, and partnerships to accelerate the response for screening, early detection, management, rehabilitation, and palliative care for the main NCDs and mental and neurological health conditions.
- Strengthen the health system response to disabilities, violence in all its forms, including violence against women, girls, and groups in situations of vulnerability, and unintentional injuries.
- Strengthen information and surveillance system capacity to monitor progress in the early detection, management, and control of NCDs and mental health, substance use, and neurological conditions, disabilities and rehabilitation, all forms of violence, road safety, self-harm and suicide, and unintentional injuries to facilitate the prioritization of resources and ensure an effective response.
- Intensify efforts to prevent, manage, and control NCDs, mental health conditions, violence, and unintentional injuries through the incorporation of an approach that recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.
- Facilitate and promote public awareness, community engagement, and multisectoral partnerships to promote supportive environments that lead to effective prevention and health promotion, increased access to services, and improved care for people with NCDs and mental health conditions and survivors of violence and unintentional injuries.
Improve country capacity to implement evidence-based guidelines on NCD management, the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP), strengthen disabilities and rehabilitation services, and implement other evidence-based tools to improve health outcomes for people with NCDs and mental health conditions.
Provide guidance to develop and implement strategies to promote deinstitutionalization of long-term psychiatric care based on human rights principles and specified internationally recognized frameworks.
Support countries in the design, implementation, and analysis of population-based surveys and data on NCDs and their risk factors and ensure integration of the resulting data into NCD programs.
Improve countries’ health system response to violence in all its forms, including through the development of evidence-based guidance and tools and training of health workers, while fostering multisectoral partnerships in line with interventions for violence prevention such as INSPIRE and RESPECT.
Support countries in conducting national assessments of the safe systems approach, including post-crash response using the Emergency and Critical Care Systems Assessments tool, to identify priorities to improve road safety and emergency trauma care of road traffic and other unintentional injuries, and provide technical cooperation to implement cost-effective interventions, legislation, and policies in line with the recommendations of the Global Plan for the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030.