UN partners with European Commission to promote climate-smart agriculture

16 January 2012 – Countries need to change their current mindset to successfully tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today, adding that governments will need to explore new approaches to prevent and treat these diseases, which have quickly become one of the most pressing issues in public health. “For ages, the mindset of public health has been geared towards the prevention and control of infectious diseases,” Director-G .... [More]

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