Date: 10/25/2010
TUMSPR News: Dr. Ambrogio Manenti, the WHO representative in Iran said on Monday October 25, 2010 at Tehran University of Medical Sciences that different institutes and agencies which were related to health, such as the public and private health sectors should contribute their help to cope with the challenge of non-communicable diseases.
The World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Iran, Dr. Ambrogio Manenty, said on Monday October 25, 2010 at Tehran University of Medical Sciences that different institutes which were related to health, such as the public and private health sectors should should contribute their help to cope with the challenge of non-communicable diseases.
Thanking the health authorities from the Eastern-Mediterranean Region and their WHO delegates, Dr. Ambrogio Manenti, expressed his pleasure for supporting the Regional High-level Consultation in Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases for Low- and Middle-income Countries which was being held at Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
He called holding the event highlighted the commitment if Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education to health programs in the region. He then mentioned the previous G5 meeting on communicable diseases held a few weeks ago in Tehran by the participation of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran and WHO experts for providing an inter-country strategy for the control of communicable diseases and today to convene on the control of non-communicable diseases.
Dr. Manenty believed the decline in infant and maternal mortality rates and increase in life-expectancy, high population growth rates coupled with aging communities, rapid and unplanned urbanization, globalization of media and trade, rapid changes in life style and behavioral patterns have led countries to non-communicable diseases. He said non-communicable diseases, mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes represented a leading treat to human health and development although theses diseases were [mostly] preventable. He counted tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy diet and low physical activity four common risk factors for non-communicable diseases. He then said how it was difficult when one was poor to afford for [the tuition fee of] sports centers when he wanted to follow instructions for physical exercise or afford vegetables and fruit which are frequently expensive when we talk about eating healthy diet giving two examples of how it was difficult for individuals and institutions for controlling non-communicable diseases, whether it was in Tehran or his hometown in Milan.
He thought non-communicable diseases represented a principal cause of morbidity and mortality in Iran and said that the epidemiological profile of Iran has been changing in the last [couple of] decades together with the demographic profile as there would be more elderly people in future and more chronic diseases. He concluded that different institutes which were related to health, such as the public health sectors, non-profit organizations and the private sector and the society in general should come together to upgrade the cause and cope with the challenge of non-communicable diseases.
Manenty said that WHO was working with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran, as well as other UN agencies, to improve the situation.
He said the United Nations country team was considering the non-communicable diseases as a relevant output within UN joint exercise which is a sort of frame the will define the collaboration between the United Nations and the Iranian government for the next five years and called it important as the commitment had not to be relegated to one UN agency but it needed joint action by several UN agencies.
He finally thanked for the promoter of the initiative and the Iranian Ministry of health to host it and said WHO country office in Iran would provide their share and contribution for bringing NCDs at the top of the agenda of the countries and the UN.
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