Turkmen longevity secrets – giving up smoking, healthy nutrition and physical activity
Turkmenistan is one of the leaders of the world antismoking movement. The government of the country jointly with the World Health Organisation apply every effort to make Turkmenistan a tobacco-free country by 2025. Struggle against smoking, popularization of healthy nutrition and physical activity are the main components of the action programme on reducing the risks of diseases in the country. The progress of the programme implementation was considered during a session of the inter-branch working commission on fulfilling the tasks in the sphere of public health, the provisions of the Ashgabat Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases. In Turkmenistan, these measures have a meaningful effect in combination with the social policy, an important aspect of which is the promotion of a healthy lifestyle in the country, the development of the physical culture and health-improving movement, modern health infrastructure, which includes medical institutions, health resorts, sports sector, the tourism and recreation industry. All this is aimed at the formation of the society that values health as the greatest wealth.
