Ministry of health and sanitation initiates development of five year health promotion strategic plan 2011-2016
The Health Education Division of the Ministry of Health and sanitation with support from the World Health Organization is developing a Five year National Health Promotion strategic Plan 2012-2017 that will guide health promotion activities in the country. The plan hopes to address risk factors and determi-nants of health that contribute to ill-health and premature deaths. It also articulates advocacy for sustained health promo-tion practices, documentation and dissemination of evidence based health information.
The plan is being developed with technical assistance from the WHO Africa Regional Office (AFRO) and the WHO Country Office in Sierra Leone, in con-sultation with a other stakeholders in the health sector. Dr Da-vidson Munodawafa, Acting Director of Health Promotion Cluster in AFRO facilitated the development of the plan in a three day consultative workshop.