• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Health and Medicine
• 03 / 18 / 2012

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Public health in Cuba has among its objectives to promote the 2012 actions have given better results in combating non-communicable diseases that are within the National Program on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) as its leader said Orlando Landrove.

In the Third Regional Conference of Family Medicine and Primary Care X Seminar of Health in the Convention Palace of Havana, said Landrove be a complex process involving a multi-sectoral working to strengthen the training of human resources, all community.

NCDs are the major cause of death in the country, so it requires the development of population strategies to raise awareness among citizens regarding the identification and control of major risk factors, told AIN.

The official also noted that to achieve success in reshaping the new national plan, the Ministry of Health aims to give more dynamism to the Primary Health Care in the respective clinical areas.

This will lead to a more accurate state of health of society, which more effectively to tackle key health problems, he said.

Ensuring that timely, he stressed, will be essential in the planning of infrastructure involved in the process of combating noncommunicable diseases and others, including medical research centers and the Cuban pharmaceutical industry.

Landrove also expressed that these provisions will be very important recent reformulation of public policy in this regard, as defined by the Communist Party of Cuba in the Guideline 159 of the Economic and Social Policy.

It will be an arduous task for all make a nation where life expectancy is nearly 80 years, reduce the high levels of mortality due to noncommunicable diseases, mainly due to irresponsibility or unknowns, he said.