Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Directorate
About HPDP
The Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate strives to achieve its aims through:
- Advocating for health based on human rights and solidarity
- Investing in sustainable policies, actions and infrastructure to address the determinants of health
- Building and leading alliances with public, private, non-governmental and international organisations and civil society to create sustainable actions for health
- Monitor progress through appropriate research, indicators and targets
- Providing capacity building for people to make the right choices for their own health
- Reaching out to people within the setting of their every day life; where they learn, work, play and love
We pledge to sustain our services and efforts so that the population of Malta can live healthier, more rewarding lives.
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Our Mission
The Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate has the main aim to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of people residing in the Maltese Islands by:
- Supporting and empowering individuals to adopt a healthy lifestyle;
- Carrying out effective surveillance and control of communicable diseases;
- Developing and implementing strategies for the reduction of the burden of communicable and non communicable diseases;
- Advocating for the creation of environments conducive to health.