Castell-Florit SP, Más-Bermejo P

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The Adelaide Statement on Health in All Policies (2010), lays out equity-based principles designed to guide policymakers on incorporating health and well-being components into the development, implementation and evaluation of policy and practice while moving towards shared governance at all levels—local, regional, national and international. Special emphasis is placed on cross-sector coordination to achieve policy goals, while improving health and well-being for all.
In Cuba’s case, experience in disaster preparedness, particularly for hurricanes, has shown good cross-sector coordination. Zika serves as another recent example. First identifi ed in Uganda in 1947, Zika, an emerging disease with outbreaks in Africa, Asia, the Pacifi c and the Americas and linked to neurological disorders in newborns, was declared a global health emergency by WHO on February 1, 2016. In response, Cuba further stepped up measures for surveillance, prevention and control it had already announced in December 2015. Building on decades of experience fi ghting dengue, intensifi ed efforts to stamp out Aedes aegypti and albopictus, the mosquitoes that transmit Zika (as well as dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever), and issued a national 11-point Zika Action Plan to prevent, detect and respond to these arboviral infections.

REFERENCES

1. World Health Organization, Government of South Australia. Adelaide statement on health in all policies: moving towards a shared governance for health and well-being [Internet]. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2010 [cited 2016 Mar 5]. 4 p. Available from: http://www.who.int/social_determinants/ hiap_statement_who_sa_fi nal.pdf

2. Castell-Florit Serrate P, Carnota Lauzán O, Mirabal Jean-Claude M, Santana Espinosa MC, Cabrera González T, Hadad Hadad J, et al. Intersectorialidad en Cuba, su expresión a nivel global y local. Havana: Editorial Ciencias Médicas; 2008. Spanish.

3. World Health Organization. WHO statement on the fi rst meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on Zika virus and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations [Internet]. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2016 Feb 1 [cited 2016 Mar 19]; [about 3 screens]. Available from: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2016/1st-emergency -committee-zika/en/