Countries enabled to address social determinants of health across the life course The Secretariat will step up its leadership by:
contributing to global policy processes and high-level development agendas to ensure consideration of their impact upon health and promote a Health in All Policies approach;
engaging at a high level with non-health sectors to address the impact of policies on health and exploit opportunities for mitigating negative health impacts, including working with development banks to establish safeguards in road infrastructure activities, and ensuring that social determinants of health are considered in policy discussions on immigration;
leveraging global platforms, including the second Decade for Action on Road Safety (2021?2030), the Decade of Action on Healthy Ageing (2021?2030), and the Global Strategy for Women?s, Children?s and Adolescents? Health (2016?2030), in order to improve health;
participating in high-level boards and commissions on health and socioeconomic development in order to strengthen recovery from COVID-19, including advocating for equity in national and subnational COVID-19 responses and recovery strategies;
building and maintaining global alliances and partnerships for advancing global agendas, including through the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, the Early Childhood Development Action Network, Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities, the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and UN-Habitat;
supporting regional entities to strengthen data systems to improve reporting of road traffic deaths, in collaboration with partners, such as, the African Union, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Bank Group; and
	building and maintaining global policy processes and high-level agendas on urban development and health.
The Secretariat will support countries to:
implement and monitor progress against norms and standards, including the INSPIRE: seven strategies for ending violence against children technical package; Safe Steps guidance on avoiding falls; implementing the Global Plan of Action for the second Decade for Road Safety; the nurturing care framework for early childhood development; and guidance on global accelerated action for the health of adolescents;
design, introduce or enforce measures to prevent violence and injuries and improve maternal, child and adolescent health, such as support road safety legislation or data systems, standards for quality day care for children;
collect data needed for prioritizing action on ageism, social isolation and loneliness, and health equity, and for assessing the prevalence of violence against older people and road traffic fatalities;
address social determinants of health through a Health in All Policies approach;
implement policies that promote the inclusion of social determinants of health as part of the response to health emergencies (e.g., the response to the COVID-19 pandemic) and ensure that such policies are sustained in recovery strategies;
enable local governments to work with communities to address the social determinants of health and equity, with a special focus on employment and social protection, including in the response to health emergencies (e.g., COVID-19 response);
build capacity in supporting children?s healthy growth and development and preventing violence against children, as well as in healthy ageing, developing road safety legislation, improving data systems and conducting local level implementation research; and
train front line health care providers in dealing with child maltreatment. Safe and equitable societies through addressing health determinants