WHO Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
On the Road to 2025: a WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region multi-stakeholder consultation in preparation for the Fourth UN High-level Meeting on NCDs
Report
20 Jan 2025
International Union of Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE)
08 Apr 2019
In this paper the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) proposes that it is lack of investment in the necessary health promotion and primary prevention systems that best explains the lack of progress globally on NCDs. Here the IUHPE articulates its position regarding ten system requirements for strengthening health promotion as a primary mechanism for meeting the WHO Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) Targets and related UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).