Implementation research addressing strategies to strengthen health systems for equitable high-quality care and health outcomes in the context of non-communicable diseases

Proposals under topic HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-06 should aim to deliver results that are directed, tailored towards and contributing to some of the following expected outcomes:

• Healthcare practitioners and providers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and/or those in high-income countries (HICs) serving disadvantaged populations have access to information allowing to strengthen health systems for equitable high-quality care and health outcomes in the context of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
• Public health managers and authorities have access to improved insights and evidence on how to decrease the fragmentation of care for patients living with NCDs and ensure continuity of care across all stages of disease progression, including prevention, risk reduction, and timely diagnosis of NCDs. They use this knowledge to design policies to reduce health inequities and to promote equitable health outcomes.
• Researchers, clinicians and authorities have an improved understanding how the proposed interventions for strengthening health systems for equitable high-quality care and health outcomes in the context of NCDs could be adopted in LMICs and/or disadvantaged populations of HICs setting, taking into account specific social, political, economic and cultural contexts.
• Communities, local stakeholders and authorities are fully engaged in implementing and taking up interventions that strengthen health systems for equitable high-quality care and health outcomes in the context of NCDs and thus contribute to deliver better health, improve quality of life across the life course and extend healthy life expectancy.

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