for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases

Noting that the conditions in which people live and their lifestyles influence their health and quality of life, and that the most prominent noncommunicable diseases are linked to common risk factors, namely, tobacco use, alcohol abuse, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, environmental carcinogens and being aware that these risk factors have economic, social, gender, political, behavioural and environmental determinants;