Health Issues | search
Click here to view Health Issues news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- Health topics - World Health Organization (WHO)Self-care for health and well-being. Diseases and conditions. Sepsis. Communicable diseases.
- Healthy diet - World Health Organization (WHO)A healthy diet is a foundation for health, well-being, optimal growth and development. It protects against all forms of malnutrition. Unhealthy diet is one of the leading risks for the global burden of disease, mainly for noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer.
- Urgent health challenges for the next decadeAs a new year and a new decade kick off, WHO is releasing a list of urgent, global health challenges. This list, developed with input from our experts around the world, reflects a deep concern that leaders are failing to invest enough resources in core health priorities and systems. This puts lives, livelihoods and economies in jeopardy. None of these issues are simple to address, but they are ...
- Adolescent and young adult health - World Health Organization (WHO)Main health issues. Many unintentional injuries such as road traffic and drowning are the leading cause of death and disability among adolescents. Road traffic accidents. In 2021, over 100 000 adolescents (10–19 years) died from road traffic accidents.
- 6 conditions that highlight the women’s health gapFor instance, the women’s health gap equates to 75 million years of life lost due to poor health or early death each year. Closing the gap would give the 3.9 billion women in the world today an extra seven healthy days a year, or an average of 500 days over a lifetime. This gap has economic consequences as well.
More
