health

• 5 identified Global Health Initiatives

  • SDGs or Sustainable Development Goals
  • FCTC or WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
  • Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol
  • Global Mental Health Action Plan
  • GAVI - Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations
• Sustainable Development Goals are set and adopted by countries around the world


  25th of September in 2015
• Sustainable Development Goals


  Main objectives are to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all members of Humankind
• Sustainable Development Goals


  • No Poverty
  • Zero Hunger
  • Good Health and Well-being
  • Clean Water and Sanitation
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Responsible Consumption and Production
  • Life Below Water
  • Life on Land
• WHO FCTC


  The world's first modern-day global public health treaty about the effects of tobacco consumption, negotiated under the World Health Organization
• WHO FCTC


  • Aimed to set universal standards and limit the use of tobacco in all forms all throughout the world to protect the current and future generations of people from the negative effects of tobacco to health, to the environment, and to society in general
• WHO FCTC


  1. Adopt tax and price measures to reduce tobacco consumption

  2. Ban tobacco advertisement, promotion, and sponsorship

  3. Create smoke-free work and public spaces

  4. Put prominent health warnings on tobacco packages

  5. Combat illicit trade in tobacco products
• Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol

  A program led by the World Health Organization to save people's lives from the dangerous effects of alcohol use
• Alcohol kills 2.5 million people every year, including those between 15 and 29 years of age
• Alcohol is considered as the third leading risk factor for poor health all over the world
• Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol


  1. Public health advocacy and partnership

  2. Technical support and capacity building

  3. Production and dissemination of knowledge

  4. Resource mobilization
• Global Mental Health Action Plan


  A plan led by the World Health Organization to develop mental health services and include a mental health program in each community in a country
• Objectives of the Global Mental Health Action Plan

  • Strengthen effective leadership and governance for mental health
  • Provide comprehensive, integrated, and responsive mental health and social care services in community- based settings
  • Implement strategies for the promotion of mental health and the prevention of mental health problems
  • Strengthen information systems, evidence, and research for mental health
• GAVI


  A global health partnership aimed at universal immunization, with the goal of saving children's lives and protecting people's lives by increasing access to immunization in poor countries
• GAVI


  • Ensures that new vaccines are available to poor countries at an affordable rate, and that the vaccines are made available in a shorter period of time, and that each country is equipped to deliver them to the people