Promoting healthy lifestyles is one of the most important elements of enhancing the quality of life for community members in the country. A healthy lifestyle can be defined as the way of living of an individual or family that affects the health of a person and through which the quality of life can be enhanced, diseases avoided or the risk of death reduced. Accordingly, the Ministry prepared the National Policy for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles, which was issued by the Cabinet in 2022, as its vision was “a society that adopts sustainable healthy lifestyles.” Its mission was: “Prepare a multi-sectoral national framework to promote healthy lifestyles to achieve the highest levels of health for community members and enhance their quality of life.” Within the concept of community partnership in the United Arab Emirates. The policy focuses on promoting the following healthy lifestyles: healthy food - physical activity - tobacco control through the following objectives:

• Building and supporting social, financial and administrative commitment
• Strengthening coordination at all levels - effective national partnerships and international cooperation
• Developing legislation supporting healthy lifestyles
• Strengthening the institutional capabilities of the health authorities and the concerned authorities in order to be able to mobilize resources and specialized cadres
• Reducing the consumption of unhealthy food
• Combat physical inactivity
• Tobacco control with a view to preventing the initiation of tobacco consumption in order to reduce the burden of disease and the death rate resulting from complications related to the use of tobacco products
• Ensuring the continuity of health services supporting the sustainability of healthy lifestyles during emergencies, disasters and pandemics
• Enabling community members to make decisions based on information about their personal health through appropriate and continuous health education
• Involving communities in planning, designing and evaluating effective ways to promote healthy lifestyles
• Strengthening the monitoring system for risk factors for diseases associated with an unhealthy lifestyle
• Providing and creating a database and accurate statistics of risk factors and their determinants
• Promoting and developing high quality research procedures in the field of prevention and response to lifestyle disease risk factors
• Develop supportive interventions and initiatives to promote healthy lifestyles through external and internal health-promoting environments