The vision of HealthifyMe, the largest digital health organisation, to Healthify a billion lives in the next 5 years helps the country bring about a positive change in the healthcare sector and its fight against diseases such as obesity. Let us explain how. Healthifying You We have revolutioni...
According the latest data by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in upper –middle-income countries, stroke is the leading cause of death, followed by cardiac diseases. UAE prevalence In the UAE, after road accidents, stroke is the second leading cause of disability. Annually 8,000 to 10,000...
obesityTurkeyOur aim was to determine the relationship between body fat percentage (BF%) and body mass index (BMI) and to evaluate the validity of World Health Organisation's BMI cut-off values for obesity. Adult out-patients (n=909, 249 men, 660 women), mean age; 40.5 ± 14.1 years ...
identifying positive cases; (2) quarantine of symptomatic or exposed individuals; (3) abrupt enforced closure (lockdown) of non-essential services; (4) shielding of high risk individuals; (5) social distancing; and (6) use of personal protection equipment (PPE; World Health Organisation, 2020)...
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the growth of the processed food industry has impacted the amount of salt in diets worldwide and this plays a major role in hypertension. Types of Hypertension Disease Hypertension disease is classified into two namely primary hypertension and second...
There is no central depository for global sex information (in contrast to the World Health Organisation's databank of health statistics); very few sexology institutes or specialists exist in most countries; and only a handful of countries have comprehensive statistics. Sex research, where it exists...
1Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 2Department of Neurobiology Care Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, Research Group Integrative Care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 3I C – The Integrative Care...
“Statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO), shows that Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs) are the leading Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and are the foremost cause of death globally, taking an estimated 17.9 million lives each year. ...
With obesity now affecting 29 % of the population in England and expected to rise to 35 % by 2030 should we now recognise it as a disease Obesity in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that health may be adversely affected meets the dictionary dehn it...
Global health body calls for action to tackle ‘very worrying’ outbreak of highly transmissible virus Tuesday, 23 July, 2024 Israel-Hamas war WHO warns Gaza at ‘high risk’ of polio outbreak Health organisation says the risk of transmission is high because of ‘the very dire situation with ...