Total allocation for the "health care" focus area amounts up to CHF 38 979 938.
The focus area supports programmes with the following objectives:
Objective No. 1: To promote healthy lifestyles and to prevent communicable diseases on national level and in geographical focus areas (total allocation: CHF 17 048 031).
Objective No. 2: To strengthen primary health care and social services in the peripherial and disadvantageous region of the geographic focus areas in favouring a multi-sectoral programmatic approach (total allocation: CHF 21 931 907).
This focus area is characterized by the programme approach (a programme consists of component projects linked by a common theme or shared objectives).