Priority areas covered by the new agreement include:
- investing in health through a life-course approach and by empowering people;
- tackling the challenges of non-communicable and communicable diseases;
- strengthening people-centered health systems, public health capacity, and emergency preparedness, surveillance and response; and
- creating resilient communities and supportive environments.
Read more in this article on WHO website
AGE welcomes this agreement, which recognizes the importance of combining actions at all levels and the key role played by the regions to improve public health. It is also perfectly in line with our campaign on age-friendly environments, which promotes supportive environments for healthy and ageing with a life-course perspective, and the work done within the European Covenant on demographic change, which fosters cooperation for healthy and active ageing policies at regional and local levels.