National Committee on promoting Olympism and ensuring human development indicators holds its first meeting

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2021-08-30 13:55:23

Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. The National Committee in charge of promoting Olympism, ensuring human development indicators and improving quality of life held its first meeting on August 28.


Prime Minister L. Oyun-Erdene opened the meeting, saying “This committee will focus on improving the quality of life of citizens and the basic indicators of human development. In the Human Development Index report, Mongolia ranks 92nd out of 189 countries in the world.  Therefore, the National Committee needs to pay attention to each indicator of the index and ensure coordination between sectors.”


The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living.


At the meeting, Minister of Health and member of the National Committee S. Enkhbold said, “Currently, 14 types of preventive and early detection checkups are being carried out in Mongolia based on age, gender and health risks. However, the coverage of this medical checkups is very low, or 7.8 percent of the total population over the age of 18 has been involved in the early-detection checkups. Respiratory diseases account for the majority of leading causes of morbidity in the population. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death. Therefore, six types of precautionary measures are being implemented. According to the study, the half of all adults and one third of school-age children are overweight. Therefore, it is necessary to continue the current measures and create a legal environment to build the knowledge, attitudes and practices of citizens for a healthy and active life. ”


Moreover, Minister of Education and Science and deputy head of the National Committee L.Enkh-Amgalan made a presentation on the education sector. He said, “Mongolia ranks 92nd out of 189 countries in the Human Development Index and 103rd out of 189 countries in the Education Index. The education sector has some problems such as poor organizational structure, management and governance, big gaps in rural and urban education, inadequate coherence between education levels, unsustainable curricula, as well as underdeveloped lifelong learning systems. Thus, we are working to develop the reform of the education sector through the principles of a lifelong education system. Conducting legal reforms in the education sector through the General Education Law is expected to increase the human development rate to 0.85 percent, the poverty rate to 15 percent and the unemployment rate to 7 percent by 2030. ”


As a conclusion of the meeting, Prime Minister L.Oyun-Erdene obliged the members of the National Committee to work ensuring the sectoral coherence to improve the human development index, while stressing an importance of intensifying cultural changes among the population.