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Mashup Score: 39Hypertension - 11 month(s) ago
Hypertension
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Geneva – WHO’s Executive Board today welcomed the Carter Center, Inc. and the NCD Alliance into official relations with WHO.The new status, to be ratified at the World Health Assembly in May, enables these valued partner organizations to engage more directly with WHO processes; they may participate at sessions of WHO governing bodies, propose agenda items and organize side events as a…
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The Government of Barbados, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization are holding a high-level technical meeting on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health with Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The discussion focusses on progress, challenges, and opportunities to scale up multi-sector actions on NCDs and mental health and to set out…
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Susan Onyango / The Healthy Woman © Credits Susan Onyango is a nutritionist working at the Marindi Sub County Hospital in Homa Bay County, western Kenya, where some 2500 people living with HIV regularly seek care. Among her patients and especially among women, she started to see a trend from undernutrition to overweight and obesity, often caused by an unbalanced diet.Venturing…
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“The Healthy Woman” is a project by nutritionist Susan Onyango in Western #Kenya to help women living with HIV to better understand how to avoid unhealthy weight gain & associated health risks - an issue that is often overlooked among this group https://t.co/HyIBsJphft #BeatNCDs https://t.co/0qyxas4xUu
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The Global status report on physical activity 2022, published today by the World Health Organization, measures the extent to which governments are implementing recommendations to increase physical activity across all ages and abilities.
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On the cusp of the FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022, partners at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) in Qatar are hosting a Sport for Health Conference to highlight how football and other sport can boost physical activity and address serious global public health concerns. The Sport for Health Conference aims to strengthen global efforts to decrease noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and…
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Physical inactivity raises the risk of noncommunicable diseases, e.g. heart disease, cancer, diabetes. They kill nearly 41 million people each year. Sports can help fight these diseases & greatly improve mental health. Let’s do #Sports4Health & #BeatNCDs! https://t.co/6JV756CRHA https://t.co/KvudDiVcZL
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Mashup Score: 68Home - 2 year(s) ago
Noncommunicable Diseases Data Portal Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – cause nearly three-quarters of deaths in the world. Their drivers are social, environmental, commercial and genetic, and their presence is global. Every year 17 million…
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Mashup Score: 9Invisible numbers - 2 year(s) ago
The true extent of noncommunicable diseases and what to do about them Noncommunicable diseases cause nearly three quarters of deaths in the world. There are four major NCDs: cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease. Their drivers are social, environment, commercial and genetic, and their presence is global. This report reminds us the…
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Mashup Score: 88Home - 2 year(s) ago
Noncommunicable Diseases Data Portal Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – cause nearly three-quarters of deaths in the world. Their drivers are social, environmental, commercial and genetic, and their presence is global. Every year 17 million…
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Mashup Score: 105Invisible numbers - 2 year(s) ago
The true extent of noncommunicable diseases and what to do about them Noncommunicable diseases cause nearly three quarters of deaths in the world. There are four major NCDs: cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease. Their drivers are social, environment, commercial and genetic, and their presence is global. This report reminds us the…
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This is how you can prevent high blood pressure: ❗Reduce 🧂 to less than 5g/day ❗️Avoid saturated fats & trans fats 🍔 ❗️Avoid 🚬 ❗️Reduce 🍺 ❕Eat 🍎 and 🥦 regularly ❕Be active 🏃🏋️ Let's #BeatNCDs! 👉https://t.co/feNmyohCoQ #WorldHypertensionDay https://t.co/zE4eiZ4j4L