Background

AstraZeneca recognises that prioritising prevention is crucial if we’re to fulfill the growing demand for healthcare companies and enhance equitable outcomes. We want a basic shift from ‘sick care’ to well being care, gearing our well being methods to behave earlier to stop, and allow entry to well being schooling, literacy, and well being empowerment. 

AstraZeneca’s Young Health Programme (YHP) is a world illness prevention programme with a novel deal with younger individuals aged 10 to 24, dwelling in weak environments and under-resourced settings world wide. The YHP goals to stop the commonest non-communicable illnesses (NCDs) similar to most cancers, diabetes, coronary heart illness, and respiratory illness.  

A holistic and built-in programme, it combines group programmes, analysis and advocacy and helps the event of younger leaders. The YHP is a part of AstraZeneca’s sustainability dedication to speed up supply of sustainable healthcare and use our capabilities to strengthen well being methods and enhance equitable entry.  

Our mission is to foster sustainable, collective management centered on enhancing youth and adolescent well being, with an emphasis on under-resourced and marginalised communities. Worldwide, younger individuals can face many limitations in equitable entry to healthcare, and their wants may be uncared for by well being methods and well being coverage. (1) 

We imagine that enhancing adolescent well being and well-being will ship a triple dividend: not solely will it ship main advantages for adolescents and for these round them, however it’ll additionally enhance their well being as adults and the well being of the kids they may have. An funding in adolescent well being is an funding within the well being of future generations. (2)     

Since 2016, AstraZeneca, by means of its YHP, has partnered with One Young World to establish and empower younger leaders who’re advocating for a optimistic affect on youth well being of their communities.