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for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases through a meaningful
multisectoral response, addressing risk factors and determinants of health;
44. With a view to strengthening its contribution to non-communicable disease
prevention and control, call upon the private sector, where appropriate, to:
(a) Take measures to implement the World Health Organization set of
recommendations to reduce the impact of the marketing of unhealthy foods and nonalcoholic beverages to children, while taking into account existing national
legislation and policies;
(b) Consider producing and promoting more food products consistent with a
healthy diet, including by reformulating products to provide healthier options that
are affordable and accessible and that follow relevant nutrition facts and labelling
standards, including information on sugars, salt and fats and, where appropriate,
trans-fat content;
(c) Promote and create an enabling environment for healthy behaviours
among workers, including by establishing tobacco-free workplaces and safe and
healthy working environments through occupational safety and health measures,
including, where appropriate, through good corporate practices, workplace wellness
programmes and health insurance plans;
(d) Work towards reducing the use of salt in the food industry in order to
lower sodium consumption;
(e) Contribute to efforts to improve access to and affordability of medicines
and technologies in the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases;
Strengthen national policies and health systems
45. Promote, establish or support and strengthen, by 2013, as appropriate,
multisectoral national policies and plans for the prevention and control of
non-communicable diseases, taking into account, as appropriate, the 2008–2013
Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of
Non-communicable Diseases and the objectives contained therein, and take steps to
implement such policies and plans:
(a) Strengthen and integrate, as appropriate, non-communicable disease
policies and programmes into health-planning processes and the national
development agenda of each Member State;
(b) Pursue, as appropriate, comprehensive strengthening of health systems
that support primary health care and deliver effective, sustainable and coordinated
responses and evidence-based, cost-effective, equitable and integrated essential
services for addressing non-communicable disease risk factors and for the
prevention, treatment and care of non-communicable diseases, acknowledging the
importance of promoting patient empowerment, rehabilitation and palliative care for
persons with non-communicable diseases and of a life course approach, given the
often chronic nature of non-communicable diseases;
(c) According to national priorities, and taking into account domestic
circumstances, increase and prioritize budgetary allocations for addressing
non-communicable disease risk factors and for surveillance, prevention, early
detection and treatment of non-communicable diseases and the related care and
support, including palliative care;
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