The Health2030 Strategy is our health policy compass. To implement it, we are pursuing a wide variety of activities. A number of examples are presented here.
Our public health activities
Together with the other federal authorities concerned, we are seeking to promote sustainable development of the health system in all the priority areas of Health2030. Here, by way of example, we present a number of activities designed to address the following four challenges:
- Technological and digital change
- Demographic and social trends
- High-quality and financially sustainable healthcare
- Opportunities for a healthy life
The following list of examples is not exhaustive and will be continually developed.
Please note that most examples are presented only in the national languages Italian, French, German.
Technological and digital change
Objective 1: Utilise health data and technologies
Ensure that all partners in the health system utilise health data and new medical technologies, taking into account opportunities and risks.
Promoting digitalisation and use of data
Examples:
- Data space for health-related research
- Development of DigiSanté – programme to promote digital transformation of healthcare
- Data transparency strategy for compulsory health insurance costs and benefits
Defining how new technologies should be used
Examples:
- Revision of human & stem cell research legislation including revision of HRA Ordinances
- Reimbursement of costs for digital health applications
Objective 2: Promote health literacy
Empower people in Switzerland to make well-informed, responsible and risk aware decisions that determine their own health and that of their relatives with support from qualified healthcare professionals. Citizens are encouraged to access solidarity-based healthcare services in a responsible manner.
Improved public information
Example:
Improving the way information on health and diseases is handled
Examples:
- Public information campaign on organ donation/presumed consent
- Early warning system for communicable diseases
Demographic and social trends
Objective 3: Safeguard care and funding
The federal government, cantons, insurers and those involved in long term care ensure that there are enough well-qualified staff in the right place to provide efficient long-term care to those who need it.
Providing more long-term carers
Examples:
Optimising funding of long-term care
Example:
- Further development of care funding
Objective 4: Ensure healthy ageing
The federal government, cantons and other stakeholders ensure that people of all ages enjoy favourable conditions to allow them to be as healthy as possible.
Enhancing prevention of non-communicable diseases
Examples:
- Revision of Tobacco Products Act
- Recommendations on health-enhancing physical activity (HEPA)
- Substance use-specific services for older people
Promoting child and adolescent health
Examples:
High-quality and financially sustainable healthcare
Objective 5: Improve quality of care
The federal government, cantons, insurers and medical service providers reduce overprovision, underprovision and inappropriate provision of care.
Enhancing coordinated care
Examples:
- Coordinated care
- Programme to support efficiency in primary medical care (implementation of care initiative)
Improving medical treatments
Examples:
- Further development of quality strategy
- Dealing with the topic of patient safety at the international level
- Implementation of National Strategy for the Monitoring, Prevention and Control of Healthcare-Associated Infections (NOSO Strategy)
- Project to promote appropriate healthcare
- Support for drug treatment aided by digital tools
- Swiss legislation on medical devices
Objective 6: Control costs and ease burden on low-income households
The federal government, cantons, insurers and medical service providers control cost increases in compulsory health insurance. They ease the financial burden on low-income households more effectively.
Influencing cost development
Examples:
- Cost containment measures to ease the burden on compulsory health insurance
- Sustainable implementation of prevention services with a focus on support for self-management
- Comprehensive assessment of existing and new services for compliance with criteria of efficacy, appropriateness and cost‑effectiveness
Optimising the individual premium reduction
Example:
Opportunities for a healthy life
Objective 7: Support health through a healthy environment
The federal government and cantons work together in the area of environmental policy to ensure that current and future generations can enjoy optimal health and can benefit from biodiversity and landscape quality.
Reducing environmental health risks
Example:
Preserving and supporting nature and landscape quality
Examples:
Objective 8: Promote occupational health
The federal government, cantons and employers utilise the opportunities that arise from new forms of employment in the world of work and take account of the resulting risks.
Preventing negative health effects of new forms of employment
Example:
- Occupational health promotion and preventionFörderung eines gesunden Arbeitsumfelds
Fostering healthy work environments
Examples:
- Non-Ionising Radiation and Dosimetry portal – Digitalisation of personnel dosimetry processes
- Indoor pollutants, information focusing on air exchange in buildings
Last modification 20.12.2023
Contact
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Health2030
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