31 Jan 2019
The world is facing multiple health challenges. These range from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and diphtheria, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity and physical inactivity to the health impacts of environmental pollution and climate change and multiple humanitarian crises. Read more here.
31 Jan 2019
14 Jan 2019
WHO/Europe and a group of Member States have organized a workshop for developing, implementing and evaluating health literacy initiatives across the WHO European Region to support the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). In Europe, countries are being called upon to scale up their efforts to build and support health literacy. The Region is now well on its way to achieving...
14 Jan 2019
09 Jan 2019
In order to alleviate the massive global burden of suffering and unfulfilled potential resulting from all forms of malnutrition, Member States of the United Nations proclaimed the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025) in 2016 through UN General Assembly Resolution 70/259. Nutrition is firmly embedded in the 2030 Agenda through SDG 2 (End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition...
09 Jan 2019
12 Dec 2018
Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement could save about a million lives a year worldwide by 2050 through reductions in air pollution alone. The latest estimates from leading experts also indicate that the value of health gains from climate action would be approximately double the cost of mitigation policies at global level, and the benefit-to-cost ratio is even higher in countries such as China...
12 Dec 2018
12 Dec 2018
A new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates road traffic deaths continue to rise, with an annual 1.35 million fatalities. The WHO Global status report on road safety 2018 highlights that road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of children and young people aged 5-29 years. Read the full article here.
12 Dec 2018
28 Nov 2018
The WHO GCM/NCD has launched a new Community of Practice on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Commercial Determinants of Health (CDoH). These virtual discussions bring together experts to develop knowledge, share best practices and country case studies on the focused thematic area of NCD prevention and control. Read more here.
28 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018
21 Nov 2018
11 Nov 2018
The General Meeting of the Global Coordination Mechanism on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (GCM/NCD) provided an opportunity for the GCM/NCD Participants, including all Member States, UN Agencies, funds, programmes and organizations, as well as non-State actors (NGOs, academic institutions, philanthropic foundations and business associations) “to meet face-to-face to faci...
11 Nov 2018
05 Nov 2018
African ministers of health and environment discuss how to turn health and environmental policies into action. In the African region, 23% of deaths are linked to the environment. New environmental threats have emerged in recent decades, including climate change and rapid and unplanned urbanization. Read the full article here.
05 Nov 2018
29 Oct 2018
Every day around 93% of the world’s children under the age of 15 years (1.8 billion children) breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and development at serious risk. Tragically, many of them die: WHO estimates that in 2016, 600,000 children died from acute lower respiratory infections caused by polluted air. A new WHO report on Air pollution and child health: Prescribing...
29 Oct 2018
