The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory diseases, currently outnumber communicable diseases and are the world’s deadliest.
The World Health Organization has released a new report and online portal with data from 194 countries on non-communicable diseases and their risk factors: smoking, unhealthy diet, harmful use of alcohol, lack of physical activity, and air pollution. According to experts, “eliminating these factors could prevent or delay major health problems and many premature deaths” from these diseases.
For the World Health Organization, which launched the initiative during the United Nations General Assembly, this is one of the century’s greatest challenges in health and development. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, Along with mental healthIt causes nearly three quarters of deaths worldwide and kills 41 million people annually.
Report “The Unseen Numbers: The Real Extension of non-communicable diseasesSEO what to do with them” gives insight into these diseases and states the “true scale” of this threat and risk factors, the World Health Organization considers in a statement. “It also demonstrates the cost-effectiveness of globally applicable cost-effective interventions that can change these numbers and save lives.” lives and money.”
The portal contains the latest data on each country, risk factors and policy adoption: “It makes patterns and trends across countries visible and allows comparison between countries or within geographical regions.” According to the World Health Organization, every two seconds someone under the age of 70 dies from a non-communicable disease, and 86% of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. “This major shift in public health over the past few decades has gone largely unnoticed,” the organization says.
“The report and the portal come at a critical time for public health: in 2022, only a few countries were on track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of reducing premature mortality by a third by non-communicable diseases By 2030, “the World Health Organization maintains. Experts claim that prevention and treatment is an “excellent investment opportunity, which will have many impacts on economic growth, far outweighing the money spent.”
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