WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health

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WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity
and Health

• Dr. Timothy Armstrong,
• Surveillance and Population-based Prevention Unit
• WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland

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Outline

• - The problem
• - Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and
  Health (DPAS)
• - DPAS implementation

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Recall
35 000 000 people died from NCDS 60 of all
deaths
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Projected deaths by major cause and world bank
income group
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5.3 million deaths a year
1.9 million deaths a year
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Risks are Increasing
Source WHO, Preventing Chronic Diseases, 2005
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The Global Strategy on Diet Physical Activity and
Health (DPAS)
www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity
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Key message
''Our support to implement the Global Strategy
on Diet, Physical Activity and Health will
increase'' - Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General
Elect (Speech to the World Health Assembly, 9
November 2006)
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Objectives of DPAS

• Reduce risk factors for NCDs through public
  health actions
• Increase awareness and understanding of
  importance diet and physical activity on health
• Develop, strengthen, implement global, regional,
  national policies, plans etc to improve diets and
  increase physical activity that are sustainable,
  comprehensive and actively engage all sectors
• Monitor science and promote research on diet and
  physical activity.

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Key Principles

• - Multisectoral action
• - Implementation based on country needs
• - Implementation across all age, sex,
  socioeconomic groups
• - Advocacy must be ongoing
• - Macro and micro levels addressed in combination

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Recommendations for

• WHO
• Member States
• UN and International Organizations
• Civil Society
• Private Sector

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Global Activities
Normative functions Guidance and technical
support Interactions with global private
sector Interactions with UN Agencies
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DPAS Tool Box

• DPAS tool box includes
• - The Global Strategy on Diet, Physical
  Activity and Health
• - A Framework to Monitor and Evaluate
  Implementation
• - Guide for Population-based Approaches to
  Increasing Levels of PA
• - WHO/FAO Fruit and Vegetables for Health
• - Reducing Salt Intake in Populations
• - Prevention of NCDs at the Workplace
• - Marketing of Food and Non-alcoholic
  Beverages to Children
• - DPAS policy database (Member State
  experiences)
• - Move for Health Initiative.
• More information www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity
  /implementation/toolbox

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Regional Activities

• DPAS Implementation workshops in the African,
  Americas, South-East Asia and Western Pacific
  Regions
• Physical activity workshop in the African Region
  in 2007
• Regional workshops on Promotion of Fruit and
  Vegetable
• Ministerial Conference on Counteracting Obesity
  in Istanbul (EURO)
• Workshop 25th March, Dubai, UAE
• Develop multisectoral approach for the prevention
  and control of NCD's

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Actions by Member States

• South Africa

• Brazil

• Many countries around the globe have developed
  national diet physical activity strategy /
  plans / materials / platforms, modelled after DPAS

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International Partners

• FAO and WHO jointly hosted the development of the
  WHO/FAO Framework for Promoting Fruit and
  Vegetable Consumption for Health
• UN Sport for Development and Peace promotes DPAS
• Codex Alimentarius Commission explores how Codex
  can support the implementation of DPAS
• EU Platform on Diet, Physical activity and
  Health
• Brings together industry associations, consumer
  groups, health NGOs and political leaders, to
  take voluntary action to halt and hopefully
  reverse the rise in obesity, particularly among
  children.

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Civil Society and NGOs

• Global Alliance for Prevention of Obesity
  Related Chronic Diseases
• Provide coordinated NGO actions to help implement
  DPAS
• Develop best-practice prevention models
• International Obesity Task Force
• GAPA (Global Alliance for Physical Activity)
• Provide advocacy, coordination, integration and a
  strategic orientation to global activities to
  promote population based approaches to physical
  activity

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Private sector

• Promotion of healthy diets and physical activity
• Product reformulation
• New products with better nutritional value
• Responsible marketing
• Food labelling
• Workplace wellness

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