Ministry of Health Country Resources General Health Policies Samoa 2018 Policy document

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To accelerate our collaborative efforts towards that end, the National NCD Control Policy 2018-2023 is a multiyear effort by the health sector, our communities and partners to develop a comprehensive national NCD Control Program that aims to tackle the NCD challenge in a more systematic approach. The policy comes at the right time. With the current squeeze on aid budgets and a persistent scepticism about the return on investing in health care compared with other priorities, we need guidance on how to design affordable, equitable, goodquality packages of care for Samoa. Such guidance in our view must be both methodologically rigorous and grounded in practical challenges, whilst being more realistic of the need to develop within our own means. To achieve that purpose, the policy proposes: 1. To promote the health and well-being of the Samoan community. 2. To achieve sustainable improvements in the health status of Samoan by decreasing the incidence of NCDs. 3. To improve the health-related quality of life of Samoans and reduce complications and premature mortality in people living with NCDs. 4. To improve the capacity of human resources through professional developments to better respond to NCD control and treatment. 5. To assure the rights of all people with NCDs to access quality and affordable health care and; 6. To foster community-inclusive evidence based innovation and service sustainability.

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