HPA Policy Highlights for 2025
Ⅰ. Policy Directions
Strengthening the resilience of the primary public health system, connecting resources across public and private sectors through cross-domain cooperation, integrating digital health technologies, guiding local governments in refining public health strategies and digital transformation, developing localized community health care models, enhancing the public's preventive health literacy, and promoting healthier lifestyles.
Ⅱ. Policy Goals
Building a supportive environment for physical and psychological health and increase holistic health promotion across full lifespan.
1. Developing healthy lifestyle, constructing healthy environments, promoting healthy nutrition and physical activity. Preventing and controlling tobacco hazards, providing diverse smoking cessation services, and creating a smoke-free supportive environment.
2. Establishing a comprehensive healthcare service environment for women, children and reproductive health, expanding the coverage of the subsidies for in vitro fertilization, and improving maternal and child healthcare.
3. 3. Enhancing the accessibility of physical activities for the elderly, establishing national wide Silver Fitness Club and conducting health promotion courses, creating age-friendly and dementia-friendly communities and cities; Strengthening the prevention and management of chronic diseases, providing adult preventive health care services, providing health and education guidance for abnormal cases through screening and intervention, and linking the "Metabolic Syndrome Management Program" to delay the occurrence of chronic diseases, creating a physical function assessment service model for the elderly to detect functional decline at an early stage and intervening early to prevent and delay the occurrence of disability.
4. Achieving the national policy goal of eliminating hepatitis C, the HPA has subsidized local governments to conduct hepatitis B and C screening and has also increased the screening fee for health care providers.
5. Improving cancer prevention and early detection, elevating the screening rates, follow-up rates and quality of major cancer screenings, developing cancer preventive health care services; promoting an integrated cancer resource network to reduce cancer mortality rates.
6. Enhancing the local people's precision environmental health literacy to prevent environmental hazards; strengthening holistic health promotion and non-communicable disease prevention control and monitoring; enhancing research and development of innovative models for health promotion and disease prevention as well as improving health communication effectiveness.
Ⅲ. Key Performance Indicators
1. Infant mortality rate among indigenous regions and offshore islands maintained at or lower than the recent 3 years average.
2. Under-5 mortality rate among indigenous regions and offshore islands maintained at or lower than the recent 3 years average.
3. Infant mortality rate maintained at or lower than 4.0‰.
4. Neonatal mortality rate maintained at or lower than 2.4‰.
5. Maternal mortality rate (per 100,000 live births) maintained at or lower than the average of the past 3 years.
6. Probability of premature death from cancer maintained at or below 7.0%.
7. Probability of premature death from cardiovascular diseases maintained at or below 3.33%.
8. Probability of premature death from diabetes maintained at or below 0.89%.
9. Probability of premature death from chronic respiratory diseases maintained at or below 0.4%.
10. Prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults maintained at or below 50.8%.
11. Prevalence of insufficient physical activity among adults maintained at or below 39.3%.
12. Prevalence of insufficient physical activity among seniors maintained at or below 52.1%.
13. The adult smoking rate maintained at or below 12.7%.
14. The high school student smoking rate maintained at or below 6.4%.
15. The junior high school student smoking rate maintained at or below 2.4% the average of the available data from the most recent three years.
16. Prevalence of adults daily consuming 3 servings of vegetables and 2 servings of fruits maintained at or higher than 20.0% for vegetables and 14.9% for fruits in 2023.
17. The recommended daily salt intake for adults maintained at or below 8.2 grams for men and 6.6 grams for women in 2023.
18. The number of cervical, breast, and colorectal cancer screening reached 4.43 million.
Ⅳ. Policy Plans
1. 5th National Cancer Prevention and Control Program (2024-2030)
2. National Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Prevention and Control Program (2021-2025)
3. Tobacco Control Program
4. Research on Holistic Health Promotion and Addiction Prevention and Control (2024-2027)
5. Sustainable Development Strategies for a Healthy Planet - Building Precision Environmental Health through Exposure Science (2023-2026)