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NMH Departments: Strategic Directions

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CHRONIC DISEASES AND HEALTH PROMOTION (CHP)

Mission: To provide leadership and direction for urgent global, regional and national efforts to promote health and to prevent and control major chronic diseases and their risk factors.

INJURIES AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION (VIP)

Mission: VIP works to prevent injuries and violence, to mitigate their consequences, and to enhance the quality of life for persons with disabilities irrespective of the causes.

MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE abuse (MSD)

Mission: To reduce the burden associated with mental, neurological and substance use disorders, and to promote mental health worldwide.

NUTRITION FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT (NHD)

Mission: To build and implement a science-based, comprehensive, integrated and action/policy oriented 'Nutrition Agenda' at global, regional and country levels that addresses the whole spectrum of nutrition problems towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals and other nutrition-related international commitments, including the prevalence of diet-related chronic diseases.

TOBACCO FREE INITIATIVE (TFI)

Mission: To reduce the global burden of disease and death caused by tobacco, thereby protecting present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke.

WHO Centre for Health Development, Kobe, Japan

Mission: To nurture, support and sustain excellence and innovation in public health research on health in development.

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