The Kingdom builds a comprehensive preventive system that starts from childhood and contributes to raising the average life of man

The annual report for the transformation of the health sector for the year 2024 AD revealed that the Kingdom has made a qualitative way to enhance health immunity and community protection; Through an integrated system based on early detection, immunization, expansion of awareness, and adopting the preventive health approach mainly for care, no later response to the disease. The German measles and nascent jams, in addition to increasing the percentage of acquisition of HIV (HIV) in those with it, and the rate of lowering these diseases reached more than 87.5%; This is due to the expansion of fortification programs, as well as comprehensive national campaigns targeting all age groups and geographical regions.

In this context, the Public Health Academy, which was launched as a national training platform aimed at building preventive competencies, raising the readiness of public health cadres, and enhancing applied research in areas associated with epidemics, environmental health, chronic and valid diseases, in addition to a number of initiatives that aim to early detection of the Kingdom’s births to ensure their safety from genetic diseases and nutritional illnesses, and a number of blood diseases that can be transmitted Through generations.

The report revealed the inauguration of the national strategy to combat drowning; Which aims to prevent one of the most prominent causes of death among children and adolescents, through awareness programs, practical training, and cooperation with the ministries of education and sports, to include awareness within the summer curricula and activities, to monitor the performance indicators of this initiative through updated electronic platforms.

The report pointed out that during the year 2024, the efforts of the localization of health industries witnessed many contributions and efforts that contribute to achieving health security and self -sufficiency in the Kingdom by providing local industrial needs locally, localizing the industry (31) products and transferring its knowledge in the Kingdom in exchange for various incentives, and activating (17) agreements within the mandatory list of national products in the health care sector and pharmaceutical materials.

The report in the field of mental health and community protection pointed to the efforts of the National Center for the Promotion of Mental Health, including initiatives aimed at training members of society, teachers, and health employees on basic psychological support skills, rapid intervention in psychological crises, developing specialized training bags, certified certificates, to expand the base of societal awareness, and reduce the stigma of mental illness.

These efforts come within the target of the Kingdom’s 2030 vision to enhance the prevention of health risks, improve public health, and pay attention to early detection of diseases that may threaten human health, in a way that establishes the transformation of the health sector in the Kingdom from a system that focuses on treatment, to a proactive preventive model, which contributed to raising the average age in the Kingdom to (78.8) years and the vision aims to reach this average to (80) years by 2030, enabling For a vital society, a healthy and overwhelming life.