WHO, FIFA sign deal to promote healthy lifestyle through football
Football | Oct 05, 2019, 09:17 AM ISTMeasures include banning smoking at stadiums or during events organized by the soccer international governing body FIFA.
Measures include banning smoking at stadiums or during events organized by the soccer international governing body FIFA.
The new report, ‘Essential Nutrition Actions: mainstreaming nutrition throughout the life course’, released on Wednesday, stresses the role of primary health care as the foundation of universal health coverage.
The announcement was made on Wednesday following a meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee for Ebola virus disease in Congo, the fourth of its kind since the outbreak was declared on August 1, 2018, Xinhua reported.
"The proposal to convert 75 district hospitals into medical colleges in the third phase of the scheme has been sent for approval to the Expenditure Finance Committee (EFC), after which it will be sent to the Cabinet," a source said.
Failing to achieve pregnancy after 12 months of unprotected sex will be classified as a disabled person.
In clinical trials, the vaccine was found to prevent about four in ten malaria cases, including three in ten cases of life-threatening severe malaria, reports Xinhua news agency.
Salama this month predicted that the outbreak in northeastern Congo will last at least another six months before it can be contained.
In all, 15 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and India carried almost 80 per cent of the global malaria burden. In India, 1.25 billion people in the population were at risk of malaria, the report said.
According to WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, 900 million people region-wide lack basic sanitation and more than 500 million practise open defecation.
According to the WHO, a person has gaming disorder if they have impaired control over gaming, in terms of frequency, intensity, duration, and termination.
WHO has also claimed that video gaming is clinical condition and requires clinical diagnosis.
The WHO report mentions that while air pollution levels across the world in hovering way beyond danger mark, there are a few countries that have taken the matter seriously and initiated steps to tackle it.
WHO said that these medications not only are unable to treat diseases but can also cause severe complications or even death.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Soumiya Swaminathan's appointment on Tuesday morning.
World Health Organisation warns: New treatments will not be sufficient to fight the threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Breastfeeding has both cognitive and health benefits for both infants and new mothers.
Shocking figures reveal that one in every six elder people have faced physical, pscyhological or financial abuse.
India has 14.4 million of obese kids which constitutes the second highest number of obese children in 2015, following China with 15.3 million children who’re obese.
World Health Organisation has added 10 antibiotics to the list for adults and 12 for children.
Yemen has hit the number 605 and the numbers are expected to exceed 73,000.
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