Structuring of Belgian health objectives in sight

This follows the recommendation of the World Health Organisation ("WHO") to countries to equip themselves with practical objectives in order to guide their policies in health matters.

Several countries have put in place real global programmes on setting health objectives. They contribute to managing all their actions in health matters, evaluating them and, generally, guiding their policy in the more or less long term. Some of these countries have even made these programmes into population awareness tools, with websites where target values to be achieved are published and where professionals and local communities can discuss their field experiences.

Belgium is already using some of them, but they are quite disparate. The idea is therefore to bring them together in a structured programme. This would give everything a consistency and better visibility, and this would motivate the field workers, who would thus have properly defined targets to be achieved whilst being aware of participating in a global effort on a country-wide scale, at the instigation of the World Health Organisation.

KCE has therefore provided an update on the situation. In order to find out more information, view the KCE press release entitled "Belgian health objectives: from an ad hoc formulation to a more structured approach".

Source: KCE press release dated October 11, 2017: "Belgian health objectives: from an ad hoc formulation to a more structured approach".