All World Health Organization articles
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News briefsAfter US, Argentina to pull out of WHO
Argentina will be leaving the World Health Organization (WHO), president Milei has said, partly because he blames the organization for the Covid lockdowns.
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ArticleWFSGI to tackle physical inactivity with new strategic plan for the sporting goods industry
The World Federation of Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) unveiled a strategic plan at ISPO Munich 2023. The aim is to take on the historically high rate of physical inactivity.
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ArticleHamburg Declaration to combat physical inactivity renewed, IOC supports efforts
Despite individual political efforts, including the German Prevention Act in 2015 and, in 2020, the World Health Organization’s “Global action plan on physical activity,” the trend toward global inactivity has not yet been significantly reduced or even reversed. Renowned scientific societies and organizations have therefore been calling for years on ...
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ArticleIOC launches “Let’s Move” global campaign on Olympic Day
Source: IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced a new global initiative to inspire the world to move more every day in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). The campaign, dubbed Let’s Move will begin on Olympic Day, June 23. According to recent WHO data ...
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News briefsFIFA and WHO extend collaboration
FIFA and the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed to extend their collaboration to promote health through football worldwide. FIFA president Gianni Infantino and WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus signed a four-year extension to the Memorandum of Understanding, which has been in place since 2019, during the 76th World Health ...
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ArticleWFSGI cooperates with WHO to improve global health
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Federation of Sporting Goods Industry (WFSGI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Geneva that establishes a framework for collaboration to improve global health through increased physical activity and sports participation. Recent industry data shows that health and well-being are on ...
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ArticleWHO highlights the cost of physical inactivity in first-ever global report
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its Global Status Report on Physical Activity 2022, WHO’s first dedicated assessment of global progress on country implementation of policy recommendations of the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity (GAPPA) 2018-2030. The GAPP is meant to help countries increase levels of participation in ...
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News briefs
WHO issues guidance for gov’t physical activity systems
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a statement on state-encouraged exercise under the title “Fair Play: Building a strong physical activity system for more active people.” The pandemic, it reads, has “exposed vulnerabilities and inequities in opportunities for communities and people to be active,” and therefore physically and mentally ...
