Well-being societies are healthy societies. The climate crisis is a health crisis. Burning fossil fuels causes air pollution, which kills 13 people every minute due to lung cancer, heart disease and stroke. Over 90% of people breathe unhealthy air resulting from burning of fossil fuels. Air pollution impacts our health and the health of the planet. Nine out of 10 people breathe polluted air, which kills 7 million people every year. Frequent floods and extreme rainfall resulting from climate change cause drownings, injuries, heart attacks, trauma and infectious diseases. Frequent droughts and wildfires caused by climate change result in suffocation, burns, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, trauma, and mental health problems. Rising temperatures due to climate change cause headaches, confusion, tiredness and vomiting. Extreme heat can cause organ failure and even death. Climate change is having stronger and longer-lasting impacts on people’s mental health and psychosocial we...

Acounting for more than half of public health events recorded in the region over the past two decades, a new analysis by World Health Organization (WHO) shows.                                 The analysis found that of the 2121 public health events recorded in the African region between 2001 and 2021, 56% were climate-related. The region is witnessing an increase in climate-linked emergencies , with 25% more climate-related events recorded between 2011 and 2021 compared with the previous decade. World Health Day is being marked on 7 April under the theme Our Planet. Our Health .” WHO is calling on governments to, among other recommendations, prioritize human well-being in all key decisions, stop new fossil fuel explorations and subsidies , tax polluters and implement WHO air quality guidelines. “Climate change is one of the greatest threats to humanity. The entire foundation of good health is in jeo...

                                    As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, a group of mayors from the African region have committed to improve city governance for health and wellbeing as well as to promote measures for sustainable livelihoods. The African Mayors Dialogue on Urban Governance for Health and Wellbeing, an event organized jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) , with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) took place on 30 March 2022 at the UN Hub of the Expo Dubai . The event featured mayors from five major African cities: Brazzaville, Congo: Douala, Cameroon; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Gaborone, Botswana; and Lusaka, Zambia. “This is an opportunity to rethink the paradigm we use in health service delivery, ” said Dr Oumar Sylla, UN-HABITAT acting ...

The Observance of the   World Health Day 2022  on 7 April will focus our attention on urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet health y and foster a movement to create societies focused on well-being.  FORUM: World Health Day 2022 - Our Plane; Our Health. Are we able to reimagine a world where clean air, water and food are available to all? Where economies are focused on health and well-being? Where cities are liveable and people have control over their health and the health of the planet?   Follow the conversation  #WorldHealthDay ,  #OurPlanetOurHealth ,  #HeatlhierTomorrow FACTS & FIGURES Burning fossil fuels like oil; coal and natural gas causes air pollution.

Pollution and plastics are found at the bottom of our deepest oceans, the highest mountains, and have made their way into our food chain.

  More than 13 million deaths around the world each year are due to avoidable environmental causes. This includes the climate crisis which is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. The climate crisis is also a health crisis. The World Health Organization (WHO)

  Wildfires can cause death and injury from suffocation. Wildfires can cause trauma impacts on mental health.

 Extreme weather events, land degradation and water scarcity are displacing people and affecting their health.  Climate change is a threat to human health driving diseases like cancer, asthma, heart diseases and dengue.

 Nitrogen Dioxyde pollution can ahhravate respiratory diseases particularly ashma.

Needlestick injuries from discarded syringes can cause Hepatistis B, C and Infections diseases. Emissions from burning of health care can increase cancers.

  Floods can cause: Disruption of health services Shortages of Safe Water

 Floods can cause illness from infectious diseases and Poisoning.

 Climate change is making floods and extreme rainfalmm more likely and more dangerous.

  Exposure to extreme heat causes: Headaches; Confusion, Tiredness, Vomiting.

  Above 40 degrees, heat strokes might happen, causing organ failure and even death.

 2 Billion people do not have access to safe drinking water                                  

 829.000 People die from diarrhoeal disease every year caused by polluted water and poor sanitation.                                        

  3.6 Million people around the world don't have safe toilets.

Growing tobacco harms the planet. Tobacco kills more than 8 million people every year and is highly addictive.