7.8 Current debates and reforms
Address
RANNÍS – The Icelandic Centre for Research
Division of Education, Culture and Youth
Borgartún 30
IS-105 Reykjavík
Tel: +354-515 5800
E-Mail: youthwiki@rannis.is
Website: www.youthwiki.is
The National Health Policy is currently in progress. It will be the fundamental policy concerning health promotion and prevention in Iceland, including the prevention of cardiovascular disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. The vision of the policy is to achieve well-being, health, and equality for everyone, including all ages and both genders. It will contain a framework for monitoring and evaluation, a time frame for implementation, and target indicators.
Act for e-cigarettes control is currently in progress. It will be comparable to the Tobacco Control Act and will provide youth workers, teachers, parents, etc. support to keep e-cigarettes from youth under the age of 18. In addition, smoking e-cigarettes will be forbidden e.g. in schools.
An action plan according to the Alcohol policy is in progress. A delay has been in this work but hopefully, it will show some progress soon. In connection with this work, a policy on tobacco control and an action plan will be made.
The national nutrition survey is in the preparations process and will hopefully be carried out within a couple of years.