Table 3.

Timeline for issuing of policy documents

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Policies	Alcohol Control Law	State Public Health Policy	Government Policy on Drugs	Law on Iodine Deficiency Prevention and Iodized Salt		Law on Breast Milk Substitute	Health Sector Strategic Master Plan	“GER” Nutrition Guideline	MDG based National Development Integrated Policy	Alcohol Control lawa	National Strategy on Healthy Diet and Physical Activity	Clinical Guidelines:	Food Law
													Food Security Law
												Arterial Hypertension
						Tobacco Control Law
		National Public Health Council											Government Platform
												Diabetes
											Health Sector HRD Policy
						Strategy on Maternal and Child Malnutrition Prevention						Breast
													Tobacco Control lawa
												Cervical Cancers
											WHO CCS for Mongolia
											Health Education Strategy
											National Strategy on IEC to Promote Healthy Behaviours
											Health Financing Strategy
Program/Strategies				National Programme on Prevention and Control of Alcoholism			National Programme on Integrated Prevention and Control of NCDs	Health Promotion Foundation	Subnational Programme on Cancer Prevention and Control	National Food Security Program			National Program on Healthy City, District, Workplace and Schools
									MCA-M Health Project
Surveys					Global Youth Tobacco Survey	STEPS1				STEPS2	Nutrition	Salt Intake		STEPS3
														Global School-based Student Health Survey
											Multiple Indicator Cluster
											Global School-based Student Health Survey

MDG Millennium Development Goals, HRD Human Resource Development, CCS Country Cooperation Strategy, IEC Information Education Communication, MCA-M Millennium Challenge Account-Mongolia, ^aMajor changes, STEPS Stepwise approach to chronic disease risk factor surveillance