Editorial Gaudenz Silberschmidt. Whether it’s flu epidemics, food crises, trade in medicines or development aid, many health issues require global responses. The WHO – the United Nations’ authority for coordinating public health at the international level –...
Diet and physical activity. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), non-communicable diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and chronic respiratory diseases) accounted for 63% of deaths in the world in 2008. The increase in such conditions...
State of affairs of the National Programme on Diet and Physical Activity. The National Programme on Diet and Physical Activity 2008−2012 (NPDPA) was initiated a good three years ago. Its aims are to create conditions conducive to a healthy lifestyle and to motivate the population to maintain a balanced...
Five questions for Jean-Félix Savary. The association of addiction management professionals, Groupement Romand d’Etudes des addictions (GREA), hosted a conference on «50 years of drug prohibition» on 19 October. We talked to Jean-Félix Savary, secretary general of...
25 Years of the Ottawa Charter. The approval in 1986 of the Ottawa Charter, the blueprint for health promotion efforts the world over, represented a paradigm shift in perceptions of health. A book by Brigitte Ruckstuhl describes the origins and development of the...