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28 Jan 2021
The WHO Health for All Film Festival invites independent film-makers, production companies, public institutions, NGOs, communities, students, and film schools from around the world to submit their original short films on health. The festival aims to recruit a new generation of film and video innovators to champion and promote global health issues. Submissions will be open from 24 October 2020 t...
28 Jan 2021
16 Dec 2020
This webinar convened the GCM/NCD to examine the role of rehabilitation in the NCD care continuum, the challenges to be overcome to ensure people with NCDs can access the rehabilitation they need, and identify a way forward. Speakers included: Dr Helena Davies and Dr Stephen Watiti both direct stakeholder trustees and lived experience advocates from the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care All...
16 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020
This webinar in NCD Voices in the Decade of Action focused on Transforming Food Systems to Build Back Better. Here we unpackaged the interlinkages between food systems and NCD, highlighting the common elements and opportunities this brings as we develop healthier and more sustainable food systems. Speakers included: Dr Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General, UHC and Healthier Populati...
16 Dec 2020
18 Nov 2020
A new WHO Certification Programme for Trans Fat Elimination aims to recognize countries that have eliminated industrially produced trans-fatty acids (TFA) from their national food supplies. This is the first-ever certification programme that will recognize countries for their efforts to eliminate one of the main risk factors for noncommunicable diseases and protect their populations from premature...
18 Nov 2020
15 Nov 2020
This year’s World Diabetes Day falls during a global pandemic which has already taken the lives of well over a million people. People with diabetes are paying a particularly high price. Not only do they have a higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease and death when infected, but many are having difficulty accessing the treatment they need due to disruptions to essential health services. Read mo...
15 Nov 2020
29 Oct 2020
WHO and partners launch new guidance on designing digital health interventions with and for young people. Digital tools are an increasingly popular approach to improving health worldwide – particularly among adolescents and young people, who are accessing the internet at earlier stages of life. Youth-centred digital health interventions is a new framework developed by WHO, HRP, UNESCO,...
29 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
VicHealth is calling for government regulation to protect students from unhealthy food marketing around schools after a new voluntary industry led code was announced yesterday. Read more here.
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
AFL and AFLW players are joining the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) in urging Victorians to help curb the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and take care of their mental and physical health through a new video series. Reed more here.
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
Health promotion foundation VicHealth is teaming up with Proud 2 Play and South West Sport to increase inclusion of LGBTI+ people and tackle discrimination and vilification in community sport. Read more here.
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
VicHealth has today announced $340,000 in funding for five projects which support Victorians from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to continue to improve their social and emotional wellbeing. Read more here.
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
Individuals at nearly half of Australian sporting clubs involved in a new Monash University and VicHealth study still believe that homosexuality is wrong or unnatural. These views are insensitive, do not belong in community sport and must change.
26 Oct 2020
26 Oct 2020
New AIHW data has shown rising rates of obesity among Australian children facing disadvantage, widening the health gap between wealthy families and those experiencing hardships.
26 Oct 2020
