24 Apr 2021
The Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC) has today released ‘Brands off our kids!’, a report highlighting the tactics used by the processed food industry to target children with unhealthy food marketing and calling on government to set higher standards and stop the processed food industry setting its own rules.
24 Apr 2021
24 Apr 2021
Thousands more Victorian women, including many from bushfire-affected communities, will have the chance to get active and meet new people in 2021, thanks to $830,000 in new VicHealth funding to expand highly popular social sport programs. For more, click Access.
24 Apr 2021
29 Mar 2021
On March 9-11, the WHO NCD Department and the WHO GCM/NCD Secretariat held a three-day Consultation with people living with diabetes to promote their meaningful engagement in the development of the WHO Global Diabetes Compact.
29 Mar 2021
04 Mar 2021
Are you an employer wanting to promote employee health?World Obesity Federation created a set of simple, free resources to help employers support employees living with obesity and build a healthy workplace in the office and at home.[[10640]][[10639]]
04 Mar 2021
16 Feb 2021
March 4th is World Obesity Day. This day is dedicated to addressing the global obesity epidemic. We are calling on every body to work together for happier, healthier and longer lives for everybody. Click Access for more info.
16 Feb 2021
04 Feb 2021
As the First World War wore on, a new scourge erupted: an influenza pandemic that left even more bodies in its wake than the conflict itself. But the 1918 pandemic was overshadowed by the war, and its lessons went unheeded. One hundred years later, the world faces a similar test. When the Covid-19 pandemic eventually recedes, will we learn the lessons it is teaching us? Or once the emergency su...
04 Feb 2021
04 Feb 2021
An open letter to Heads of State and Government The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated deep inequalities in our societies and highlighted the need to invest smarter to address the health care needs of people living with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – including cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease, diabetes, and associated mental health conditi...
04 Feb 2021
28 Jan 2021
Several factors may lead individuals from low socioeconomic groups to adopt unhealthy behaviours, to be exposed to a wider range and a higher intensity of cancer risk factors, and to have reduced access to treatment and health-care services, compared with their fellow citizens. This webinar will provide an overview of how the phenomenon of inequalities in cancer is shaped, and of how social and...
28 Jan 2021
28 Jan 2021
WHO today released REPLACE, a step-by-step guide for the elimination of industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from the global food supply. Eliminating trans fats is key to protecting health and saving lives: WHO estimates that every year, trans fat intake leads to more than 500,000 deaths of people from cardiovascular disease. Click Access for more info.
28 Jan 2021
28 Jan 2021
But, 11 out of 15 countries with the most coronary heart disease deaths due to trans fats have yet to take actions to eliminate the substances Two years into the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ambitious effort to eliminate industrially produced trans fats from the global food supply, the Organization reports that 58 countries so far have introduced laws that will protect 3.2 billion people...
28 Jan 2021
28 Jan 2021
Public settings, such as schools, childcare centres, nursing homes, hospitals and correctional facilities and all other canteens of public institutions, can play a key role in ensuring people are provided with healthy food and helping prevent the 8 million annual deaths currently caused by unhealthy diets. Click Access for more info.
28 Jan 2021
28 Jan 2021
Population-level screening for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors has no effect on lowering CVD morbidity and mortality, concludes a recently published WHO Health Evidence Network (HEN) report. To reduce CVD risks, which are also associated with poorer COVID-19 outcomes, the report proposes some alternative measures for consideration by policy-makers in the WHO European Region. CVDs are...
28 Jan 2021
