EUROPE UPDATE: Improved monitoring of child health is needed, with common indicators. Gender differences in ageing require further analysis. Implementing the health-in-all-policies approach requires sufficient people, an engaged civil society and consistent, coordinated policy-making. Comprehensive legislation is a breakthrough in tobacco control, but vigilance is needed to monitor industry’s response. Complex public health problems, such as obesity, require complex solutions, such as active transport, which provides multiple and measurable health benefits. Policy-making on pricing, marketing and availability are the best ways to address alcohol misuse, but this requires international cooperation. In the workplace, multitasking is a health risk; time for action, idling, resting and recovering is important. Being healthy at work means having a longer working life. Salt consumption is very high in the European Union. Effective strategies to reduce it exist, and should focus on effective monitoring, reformulation of foods? and population awareness. Trends in mortality from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) reflect the impact of economic growth, recession and austerity policies. Cross-sectoral policies that address CVD, such as salt reduction, can affect mortality rates fast.

WHO/Europe | Health determinants - Progress in bringing health into all policies: "On the final day of the 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion, 14 June 2013, participants recognized the need for the health-in-all-policies approach to be central to the development agenda of countries, regions and cities. For the WHO European Region, this approach is an integral part of developing Health 2020 plans in countries." CLICK LINK TO READ MORE

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ASIA UPDATE: PHILIPPINES: "No-cook, highly nutritious “compressed food bar” recommended to be served at evacuation centers in times of disasters. Food scientists and technologists from the DOST’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) noted the lack of electricity and kitchen utensils to cook food during calamities. The scientists have also come up with a technology for the mass production of the food concoction. The cereal-legume is said to be highly nutritious because of the mixture of milk, vegetable fat, and sugar "

Instant meals for disasters developed | Headlines, News, The Philippine Star | philstar.com: "The DOST-FNRI has already pilot-tested the preparation of the compressed food concoction with help from the DOST’s Metals Industry Research and Development Center (MIRDC) which created a machine for the food’s mass production." CLICK LINK TO READ MORE

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