Operating within a gender sensitive framework, the Programme should contribute to disease prevention in all its aspects (primary, secondary and tertiary prevention) and throughout the lifetime of the Union's citizens, to health promotion and the fostering of supportive environments for healthy lifestyles, taking into account underlying factors of a social and environmental nature as well as the impact on health of certain disabilities.
Ag oibriú dó taobh istigh de chreat atá íogair ó thaobh inscne de, ba cheart don Chlár cur le galair a chosc, i ngach gné de (príomha, tánaisteach agus treasach) agus thar saolré shaoránaigh an Aontais, le sláinte a chur chun cinn, agus le timpeallachtaí tacaíochta a chothú do stíleanna maireachtála folláine, ina gcuirfear gnéithe bunúsacha de chineál sóisialta nó comhshaoil san áireamh chomh maith leis an tionchar atá ag míchumais áirithe ar an tsláinte.