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Apr 6 • 14 tweets • 10 min read
Today is #WorldHealthDay!
Environmental factors - including climate change - claim 13 million lives every year.
Stop burning fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas for a #HealthierTomorrow

More: bit.ly/WorldHealthDay…
Climate change is a threat to human health, driving diseases like cancer, asthma, heart disease, and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue bit.ly/WorldHealthDay…

#HealthierTomorrow
Burning fossil fuels like oil, coal and natural gas causes air pollution.

Keep fossil fuels in the ground for #HealthierTomorrow - a healthy planet & a healthy me bit.ly/WorldHealthDay…
🌧 🌊 Climate Change is making floods and extreme rainfall more likely and more dangerous.
Floods can cause illness, injury and even death.
Let's work for #HealthierTomorrow

More: bit.ly/WorldHealthDay…

829,000 people die from diarrhoeal disease every year caused by polluted water and poor sanitation bit.ly/WorldHealthDay…

#HealthierTomorrow
2 billion people lack safe drinking-water globally.
Protect water sources by preventing sewage, waste and chemicals from entering our lakes, rivers, or groundwater bit.ly/WorldHealthDay…

#HealthierTomorrow
Climate change is a health problem.
Take care of our health and our world for #HealthierTomorrow bit.ly/WorldHealthDay…

Show us emojis 🚲♻️🌳🏃🏻‍♀️ that represent your actions protecting your health & the planet for a #HealthierTomorrow
Tobacco kills more than 8 million people every year & is highly addictive. It is a major risk factor for cancer, heart, lung diseases.
600 Million trees are chopped down to make 6 trillion cigarettes every year, decreasing the clean air we breathe. #HealthierTomorrow
#DYK: A smoker produces 5 tonnes of CO2 in their lifetime?

No tobacco. #HealthierTomorrow.

bit.ly/WorldHealthDay…
On #WorldHealthDay kids from Milan, #Italy🇮🇹 share how they see the future of health in their city.
Milan has committed to being a smoke-free city by 2025, meaning it is expanding access to cleaner healthier air for its citizens #HealthierTomorrow
We're still shocked by this - 99% - or almost the entire world's population breathes air with unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter & nitrogen dioxide, and threatens their health.
More: bit.ly/3uW6wfC #HealthierTomorrow
🌡 🥵 Climate change increases the risk of extreme heat for exposed & vulnerable populations:

👥 outdoor workers
👥 people with underlying health conditions
👥 older people
👥 children
👥 poor people

Let's work for #HealthierTomorrow

Rising temperatures and floods caused by climate change will place an additional 2 billion people at risk of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue. #HealthierTomorrow

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Apr 7
LIVE: media briefing on #WorldHealthDay with @DrTedros and @SecBecerra twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Shocking!
99% - or almost the entire world's population breathes air with unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter & nitrogen dioxide, and threatens their health.
More: bit.ly/3uW6wfC

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Over 6,000 cities in 117 countries are now monitoring air quality, but the people living in them are still breathing air that exceeds WHO air quality limits, with people in low & middle-income countries suffering the highest exposures bit.ly/3uW6wfC

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Particulate matter, especially PM2.5, is capable of penetrating deep into the lungs & entering the bloodstream, causing cardiovascular, cerebrovascular (stroke) & respiratory impacts bit.ly/3uW6wfC Image
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Apr 3
How would you know if you have the #flu or #COVID19? Should you take both flu vaccine and the COVID-19 vaccine if these are available to you?

Watch #ScienceIn5 to find out ⬇️
Are you a health worker 👨‍⚕️🧑🏾‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️👨🏿‍⚕️?

During the #COVID19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to protect yourself against flu.

Getting the #flu vaccine will ↘️ your risk for flu.

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Are you 60 or older?

During the #COVID19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to protect yourself against flu.

Ask your healthcare provider whether a #flu vaccine is right for you.

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Apr 2
Today is World Autism Awareness Day. With appropriate support from caregivers, the health and education sectors and society at large, autistic people can live happy, fulfilled lives.

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The abilities and needs of autistic people vary and evolve over time. Health-care services need to be designed with the participation of autistic people
to promote personalized care and respond to their evolving needs.

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Timely access to psychosocial support can improve the well-being of autistic children, and their ability to communicate and interact with others.

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WHO urges quality care for women & newborns in critical first six weeks after childbirth - critical time to ensure survival, support healthy development of the baby as well as the mother’s overall mental & physical recovery and wellbeing bit.ly/3iKPgV9
Postnatal contacts are recommended for healthy women & newborns between 48 and 72 hours, between seven and 14 days, and during week six after birth.
If health risks are identified, more contacts will likely be required.
Worldwide, more than 3 in 10 women & babies do not currently receive postnatal care in the first days after birth - the period when most maternal and infant deaths occur bit.ly/3iKPgV9
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Mar 25
In 2022 WHO already responded to 7⃣4⃣ emergencies 🚨 around the 🌎🌍🌏

WHO launches an urgent appeal for funding to support:
✅ ongoing health emergencies
✅ humanitarian needs
✅ millions amongst the most vulnerable to lead dignified, healthier lives

👉bit.ly/3Isrk3c
In 2021 WHO:
✅ responded to 76 health emergencies
✅ delivered supplies & maintained essential health services in Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Syria & Yemen
✅ helped fight #COVID19
✅ coordinated emergency response with over 1600 partners
✅ & much more

👉bit.ly/3Isrk3c
Funding is 🔑 to sustain these efforts, amidst ongoing crises globally.

The appeal for US$2.7 billion represents financial requirements for WHO in 2022 to cover all 6 Regions, & country-level emergency response operations, including for #COVID19.

👉bit.ly/3Isrk3c
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