**5. Young adults and older adulthood**

The safe motherhood initiative framework was adopted, and it is used to ensure the safe health of childbearing families. The six pillars of the initiative include family planning, antenatal care, obstetric care, post-natal care, post-abortion care and control of sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, the country has invested in several programs as part of the global strategy for women, children and adolescent's health strategy (2016–2030), as a way to improve the health and well-being of people, including the involvement of males [24] National Guidelines on Health Services Integration.

#### **5.1 Disease prevention and health promotion**

The MOH utilises the strategic plan approach, a problem-solving strategy, to identify problems and map out possible solutions. The strategies are applied at all levels of implementation by healthcare workers under the MOH, and the reviews are quarterly to assess the progress and measure the impact of the action. The following health promotion disease prevention strategies are directed at controlling both noncommunicable and communicable diseases are discussed:
