Overweight & #obesity are major risk factors for a number of chronic diseases, including:
🚨 type 2 #diabetes
🚨 cardiovascular diseases
🚨 cancer
🚨 hypertension
🚨 stroke
🚨 mental health issues
The key to preventing #obesity is to ACT early:
✅ Good nutrition in pregnancy,
✅ followed by exclusive breastfeeding until the age of 6 months
✅ continued breastfeeding until 2 years & beyond.
Good nutrition is not just our choice, it is also determined by the societies in which we live. Consider this: Healthier options may be less accessible, and less affordable. They may not be marketed.
Obesity is complex.
Yet, we can tackle it holistically.
To prevent #obesity, countries need to create a better food environment by
✅restricting the marketing of unhealthy food
✅taxing sugary drinks
✅providing access to affordable/healthy food
✅making space for safe physical activity
✅promoting healthy habits for all
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@DrTedros "Yesterday I returned from my visit to #Türkiye and #Syria. I was deeply shocked and saddened by the devastation and suffering I saw and heard. In the Hatay province, 🇹🇷, almost every building has either collapsed, or is leaning dangerously"-@DrTedros
@DrTedros "I imagined how terrifying that morning must have been, in the pitch black, the rain and snow, and the awful noise of buildings collapsing and people screaming"-@DrTedros#Türkiye
Keep your ears 👂 healthy and prevent common ear problems and protect yourself from hearing loss. 🔗bit.ly/3QS0dTl
Hearing loss may result from:
◽️ genetic causes
◽️ complications at birth
◽️ some infectious diseases
◽️ chronic ear infections
◽️ the use of particular drugs
◽️ exposure to excessive noise
◽️ ageing
The 12-year conflict in #Syria caused enormous damage to the health system. The earthquakes stretched it further. Today @DrTedros entered north-west Syria and met health workers and communities to address their health needs. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Since the earthquakes hit, WHO doubled its share of the medical supplies delivered to northwest #Syria. @DrTedros committed to further scaling up health assistance to Syrians across the country. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DrTedros met the partners WHO works with in northwest #Syria to deliver essential health care, including specialised orthopaedic care and paediatric care.
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The Global Scales ⚖️ for #EarlyDevelopment is an innovation that monitors, measures, and evaluates early childhood development 👶 globally.
Ensuring all children can reach their full potential 🌟
📌 bit.ly/3HbKNqg
The quality of a 👶🏽 child’s early experiences has an incredible impact on how their 🧠 brain develops -influencing lifelong learning, health and behaviour.
The Global Scales ⚖️ for #EarlyDevelopment creates a common unit of measurement to track children's development across the 🌍 globe and is:
✅ culturally neutral
✅ easy to administer
✅ open access
✅ understandable to caregivers & children everywhere
Governments hold first detailed discussions on proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) bit.ly/3Iy8jys
The International Health Regulations (2005) set out agreed approaches and obligations for countries to prepare for & respond to disease outbreaks and other acute public health risk bit.ly/3Iy8jys
The proposed amendments come in response to the challenges posed by the #COVID19 pandemic bit.ly/3Iy8jys
The report reveals concerning setbacks for women’s health, as maternal death rates either increased or stagnated in nearly all regions of the world.
While there was progress in reducing maternal deaths between 2000 & 2015, gains largely stalled, or even reversed, after this point