PROMOTING PUBLIC HEALTH AND BIOSECURITY 7.40 Armenia’s public health policy aims at preserving, strengthening, and improving individual and public health. To implement this goal, we shall continue to emphasize disease prevention, lowering rates of mortality and disability, improving the healthcare system through the introduction of the latest advances in medical science, improving the quality of the healthcare system, ensuring access to care, encouraging healthy lifestyles, and increasing awareness about public health. 7.41 In the context of ensuring public health and turning Armenia into a technologicallyadvanced industrial country, we shall encourage the domestic production and export of hightech products in the health sector. 7.42 We shall continue to develop and expand a comprehensive health insurance system aimed at offering more effective and affordable healthcare services. 7.43 In the context of ensuring public health, we shall continue to ascribe importance to the prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of widespread non-communicable diseases, the prevention of infectious disease oubreaks and epidemics, the prevention of both new and recurring diseases, as well as the prevention of manageable infectious diseases by administering vaccinations through a national immunization program and combatting the spread of disinformation about vaccination. 7.44 Armenia shall strengthen its capacity to prevent and respond to emergencies caused by radioactive, chemical, and biological factors. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF RA | 35