World Health Organization  | UN House 40 1995 Street (Galkynysh) Ashgabat,Turkmenistan 1st floor Tel: (+993 12) 425250 |
World Health Organization is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. World Health Organization’s mission in Turkmenistan is to assist the Government in developing its health policy, health system and public health programmes addressing the main health needs of the country. WHO Country Office in the country provides support in the following areas: - Improving of Health System functioning: Enhancing national capacity in health strategic analysis, planning, organisation and resources management; improving organisation and management of health services with emphasis on primary health care, community-based preventive medicine and health promotion service; development of national health financing policy; strengthening patient safety; food safety systems including legislations and surveillance improvement.
- Health of women and children: Comprehensive policies, plans and strategies; capacity building for strengthening and scaling up services for effective maternal, perinatal, neonatal and child care, particularly for disadvantaged populations; capacity building for implementation of programmes for adolescent health including youth friendly services; reproductive health services strengthening; strengthening of monitoring of nutritional status of women and children.
- Communicable Diseases: designing effective strategies to combat communicable diseases and strengthening communicable diseases surveillance; strengthening national capacity to detect, assess, respond and cope with major epidemic and pandemic-prone diseases; strengthening of alert and response systems to enable timely detection, verification, risk assessment and response to epidemics and other public health events of international concern in accordance with the International Health Regulations 2005; controlling tuberculosis, malaria elimination, strengthening of preventive measures against STI/HIV/AIDS.
- Non communicable diseases and healthy lifestyle: integration of health promotion into primary health care, development of national policy and strategy for non-communicable diseases, addressing the problem of drug abuse, strengthening of mental health services and addressing food borne diseases.
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