Awareness and prevention

Health A to Z

According to GlobalIssues.org, approximately 36 million people die each year from non-communicable (i.e., not contagious) diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease. Since the late 1970s, the federal Healthy People Program has been …

Awareness and prevention

Department of Health and Social Care

Again, the WHO played a leading role when it fostered the development of the health promotion movement in the 1980s. This brought in a new conception of health, not as a state, but in …