The Assistant Agency for Preventive Health aims at:
- Boosting the quality and effectiveness of the healthcare provided in the health facilities related to the Ministry of Health (MOH).
- Raising the patients' health awareness level.
- Making a positive difference in terms of the community health it serves.
- Preparing the future leaders in the public health and preventive medicine field by conducting proper training programs.
- Supporting the health workers' interest in the importance of the preventive health.
- Boosting the activities of the scientific research going with the Agency's mission and vision.
- Improving the quality of life for the Kingdom's population.
- Coming up with the general policies, developing the plans and prevention programs from the infectious and epidemiological diseases, and supervising its implementation.
- Putting forward the general policies and strategies, setting the health programs related to the non-communicable diseases, and implementing these programs or overseeing its implementation.
- Participating in following up and evaluating the health programs launched by the departments by crafting their own plans, implementing them or supervising their implementation.
- Putting paid to the environment, food, and compound substances pollutants and developing the necessary plans; in order to adjust these proportions in line with the latest world standards.
- Organizing the procedures apt to improve the environment, maintain its safety, and issue the instructions necessary for that in coordination with the relevant bodies.
- Monitoring and following up the health aspects related to the potable water in collaboration with the concerned bodies.
- Overseeing the work in relation to getting rid of the medical waste in cooperation with the concerned bodies.
- Setting the standards and rules of controlling the infection within the health facilities.
- Taking part in studying and preparing the health requirements relevant to the professions with the highest health priories in coordination with the concerned bodies: determining risks, setting the guidelines, setting the swift intervention standards for protecting the workers.
- Imposing health-based monitoring over the Kingdom's ports and following up the imported and locally-manufactured commodities and foodstuff before entering in cooperation with the concerned bodies.
- Enhancing and following up the researches and studies conducted by the international organizations and scientific bodies in the preventive health field.
- Building a database concerned with the health problems in the Assistant Agency and pinpointing its size and its impact on the community and their addressing strategies; and following up and evaluating the activities set to that effect.
- Releasing the technical and administrative facilitating carrying out the Agency's objectives and strategies.
- Enhancing fostering the health and environment awareness and having the community take part in the preventive programs and activities.
- Encouraging contributions to supporting the health and environment.
- Communicating continuously with the national bodies and the relevant international and regional organizations