The visions included prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, promotion health awareness of the community and establishing a culture of healthy lifestyle.
By spreading health and nutrition awareness, the prevalence of obesity and non-communicable diseases was being addressed.
Due to rapidly increasing incomes and changing lifestyles and diet, the levels of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes are an increasing problem.
Years of life lost, distributed by cause, was 24% from communicable diseases, 55% from non-communicable diseases, and 22% from injuries (2008).
It conducts interdisciplinary research on locally prevailing communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Diseases can also be classified as communicable and non-communicable.
Nutritional education programs were set up in health centers, schools, and women associations to spread awareness of non-communicable diseases and how to prevent them.
Both initiatives include diabetes in a set of major non-communicable diseases.
