This programme, with a budget of 170 million euros, aims to finance initiatives that can transform disease prevention and improve quality of life by supporting innovative systems resulting from collaborations between manufacturers, health and research stakeholders.
This strategy is part of the WHO’s “One Health” approach and the objectives of the National Health Strategy (NHS) that UNSA defends by proposing an “intersectoral approach to the determinants of health” of populations, covering living environments such as school, work and family. However, if this call for projects aims to identify economic models for sustainable management of prevention, it must not be limited to blind financing of public-private consortia.
If the UNSA has always campaigned for a more preventive than curative approach to health, it cannot be satisfied with financial announcements. Thus for the UNSA, it is time to set up a national coordination on prevention issues to avoid the fragmentation of resources and thus obtain a real impact both in public health and on the health system itself.
Photo credit: rawpixel.com on Freepik
