HEALTHY NUTRITION AND
PROMOTING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Actions to be implemented in 2003-2004
1. World days of more physical activity (healthcare players, National Public Health and ical Officers’ Service, local decision-makers, local media and population in addition
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to local professionals)
2. Provide continued support to most appropriate methods for health promoting daily exercise through a multidepartmental grant scheme in the 2003/2004 academic year;
develop criteria of health promoting efficiency in wide cooperation; incorporate funding for daily health promoting physical exercise in the 2004 budget
3. ‘Do have self-respect’. Create sports clubs for WOMEN, conductors of families’ healthy lifestyles, on the model of the existing 20 Walk and run clubs that
country.
4. Offer optional actions at workplaces: ‘Climb the stairs instead of using the elevator’,
‘Move without the mouse too’, ‘Sports Friday at the workplace’, ‘Physical exercise in it’, ‘Moving minutes and moving bodies’
6. Organise nationwide 40 minutes’ walking at specific days, primarily for elderly pulation
plement media strategy jointly with the subprograms of the Public Health P 7. Im
the Decade of Health
8. Provide education and continuing education in health improvement, but especially to part knowledge on the importance of regular physical exercise to teacher and health velopment professionals in the health services.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SAFETY
Actions to be implemented in 2003-2004
Task 1
1.1. Organise laboratory back-up to measure, diagnose a radiation and chemical exposure, biological contamination. Its i
nd identify risks related to nfrastructural part is available
and equipped motor .3. Tasks related to strengthening public health safety
rganise and provide training to an-call system and chain of alert;
OS (strengthening the Office of the Chief Medical Officer nal health, ety for education and special training courses;
l of the healthcare provision system;
laborate methodology for efficient control as part of enforcement authority (food giene, chemical safety); develop agenda for
ross the country.
1.4.1. al education in labour hygiene (ensured from Phare-.4.2. Lay foundations of training of food safety inspectors (elaborate program, compile
xtbooks);
entification of, nd taking necessary actions with regard to hazardous materials and radiation sources which entered the country illegally and were confiscated or banned;
from Phare-support partly at the National Centre of Public Health and the National Epidemiological Centre, partly at the regional institutes;
1.2. Equip or design a mobile unit (3 specifically transformed vehicles);
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1.3.2. Update structure of NPHM
and municipal institutes; ensure rational operation of county institutes and natio centres);
1.3.3. Formulate training requirements in the fields of chemical safety, occupational environmental health, radiation hygiene, food safety and epidemiological saf professional education, continuing
1.3.4. Develop quality contro 1.3.5. E
safety, environmental health, radiation hy
surprise targeted inspections to be carried out simultaneously ac 1.4. Tasks related to education and training:
Initiate full-time profession support);
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1.4.3. Train environmental health inspectors;
1.4.4. Train radiation hygiene inspectors;
1.4.5. Train sanitary-epidemiological inspectors and infection control specialists;
1.4.6. (Training of chemical safety inspectors was accomplished in 2002.) Task 2
In connection with radiation and chemical safety:
2.1. Develop, disseminate widely and ensure acceptance of policy;
2.2. Update country profile of chemical safety; elaborate national chemical safety action program taking into account the recommendations of IFCS (Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety); launch implementation of program;
2.3. Establish a special sampling unit that is a prerequisite for the rapid id a
2.4. Ensure that the staff manning mobile radiation and chemical safety personnel at relevant authorities get familiar with the specific requirements related to radiation protection and chemic
units and the of procedures al safety.
ask 3
connection with epidemiological safety:
of policy;
.2. Develop laboratory and IT background to serve the surveillance system ensuring pidemiological rapid response capacities; introduce and impose new knowledge and
ethods;
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5.1. dely and ensure acceptance of policy;
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3.1. Develop, disseminate widely and ensure acceptance 3
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3.3 Elaborate mid-term and long-term vaccination strategy;
3.4. Develop state-of-the-art laboratory diagnosis of new and dangerous infectious diseases, together with an appropriate safety laboratory and reference laboratory background;
Launch a new data collection system of nosocomial infections Introduce Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) in 5 counties;
Task 4
Occupational health preparations:
Draft legislation on mandatory comprehensive reporting of occ
4.1. upational diseases;
4.2. Elaborate country profile in occupational health;
4.3. Implement those parts of the National Program of Occupational Safety that are assigned to occupational health services.
Task 5
In c nnection with environmental health safety:
Develop, disseminate wi
5.2. Develop and publish methodological guideline on the rapid assessment of the hazards and risks of industrial sites,
5.3. Perform annual surprise inspections to check out environmental health havaria plans.
Task 6
In connection with IT developments at the National Public Health and Medical Officers’
Service (NPHMO):
6.1. Launch IT system and infrastructure covering central and regional institutes of the NPHMOS which ensures the Service’s rapid reaction capability at all levels (national, regional, county, municipal) and at all areas of public health, and which contains structured and valid databases and enable rapid risk assessment and information;
6.2. Establish databases to support strengthening of the coordination of surveillance in chemical, food, epidemiological, radiation and occupational safety as well as environmental health, which will ultimately improve the supervision and enforcement ability of the Service;
6.3. Establish connection systems promoting up-to-date and rapid information flow with authorities interested in the institutionalisation of public health safety;
6.4. Make the chemical Safety Information System (KBIR) operational.