FG Develops Five Health Promotion Policy Documents

The Federal Government has developed five health promotion Strategic Policy documents to empower Nigerians to live healthy lives and adopt healthy behaviours.
The Director, Family Health, Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), Dr Salma Anas-Kolo, said this at the opening of a two-day Fourth Quarter 2020 National Health Promotion Forum (NHPF) meeting in Abuja yesterday.
The Chairperson of NHPF, Anas-Kolo, said that the forum was able to facilitate technical and financial support for the development of a compendium of the documents in 2020.
The documents include the National Adolescent Strategy for Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child Adolescent Health Plus Nutrition Programmes and the Knowledge Management Guideline for Health Promotion.
Others are the Revised National Integrated Reproductive Newborn Child Adolescent and Elderly Health Plus Nutrition Social and Behaviours;  Counseling Flip Chart on Key Household Practices and the Counseling Flip Chart on Family Planning/Child Birth Spacing.
According to her, another key achievement by the forum in 2020 was the ministerial presentation and the national launch of the Revised National Health Promotion Policy 2019 and the compendium of the strategic documents.
Effective implementation of these strategic policy documents would ensure health promotion programming in Nigeria: steps out
of its less successful past; become formidable contributor to the achievement of the health related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).