Healthier populations webinar series
Join our webinars to support your action for creating healthier populations.
The Healthier Populations Webinar Series are organized by the Department of Healthier Populations and Noncommunicable Diseases (HPN) of WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia. This is the weekly webinar running between 13.00-14.00 Indian Standard time of every Thursday. These webinars are open to all.
Webinar - Promoting healthy diets in South-East Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond - 30 July 2020
SEARO YouTube link - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH_y4KNm2oGh2EyR4U19X4w
Channel/Page name - World Health Organization South-East Asia Region - WHO SEARO
Introduction
The Healthier Populations webinar series are proposed to identify key areas/strategies that need to be adopted given the change COVID-19 has brought in health systems to address the pandemic and maintaining essential health services.
Objectives
- To support SEA Member States in promoting health and maintaining essential health services during the time of COVID-19 and beyond, including by identifying most critical disruptions/bottlenecks of programme delivery in created by the COVID-19 pandemic
- To build up regional collective capacity through knowledge & experience sharing mechanisms
Fact sheets:
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/sugars-and-dental-caries
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and-overweight
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/food-safety
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition
Panelist/expert
Publications
Multimedia
Presentations
- Healthy diets, the double burden of malnutrition and COVID-19 (PDF)
- Supporting agricultural and food systems to promote healthy food environments in the future (PDF)
- Promoting healthy diets during the pandemic and beyond: country barriers and enablers (PDF)
- Economic strategies to promote healthy food environments in the context of COVID-19 (PDF)