CHRONIC NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES ACCOUNT FOR 65 PERCENT OF DEATHS IN KUWAIT

  • 14/06/2022

Kuwait City: Within the framework of the national strategy for the prevention and response to chronic non-communicable diseases, the Ministry of Health's Prevention and Response to Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases Department held a workshop titled "Influence and Behavior Change," led by Dr. Dana Al-Tarrah, Assistant Professor at Kuwait University's College of Public Health, to build capacity and develop the skills of workers in the field of non-communicable chronic diseases.


Dr. Dana Al-Tarrah stressed the need of understanding societal behaviours when developing programmes and interventions to impact and shift people's behaviour toward healthier habits. She also went through the most significant ideas of behaviour change and influence, as well as how to put them into practise. 

A number of departments and concerned authorities in the Ministry of Health, with interest in raising awareness and combating chronic non-communicable diseases, participated in the workshop. Dr. Hammoud Al-Zoubi, Director of the Department of Prevention and Response to Chronic Non-communicable Diseases, explained the importance of combating chronic non-communicable diseases, which cause about 65 percent of deaths in Kuwait, and touched on the objectives of the future plan, the most important interventions and initiatives, and performance indicators.

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