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The UAE participates
in the worldwide celebration of the World Heart Day that falls on the 29th
of September, in order to raise awareness to the importance of maintaining a
healthy heart, through the healthy information and guidance which focuses on adopting
healthy lifestyles to maintain the health of the heart, in order to reduce the
incidence of heart diseases and heart attacks. This year’s theme is "creating
heart-healthy environments ", as statistics indicate that the number of
deaths due to heart disease reaches up to 17 million deaths annually.
The Ministry of
Higher Education and Scientific Research is contributing to the ongoing awareness
to reduce the incidence of heart disease through its community programs, such as
organizing campaigns that call to refrain from smoking, and focusing on the
causal factors of heart disease, such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, smoking,
glucose levels, not eating healthy food, overweight and obesity and physical
inactivity, in order to encourage individuals to adopt healthy lifestyles. It
also organizes special campaigns for good nutrition and the importance of
activity and movement for the body's health in general and the heart’s in
particular, such as Move for Health campaign, and Ramadan Kareem and Safe Food
lecture, as well as awareness media materials and health studies listed on the
Ministry’s website under the icon “Our Pick”.
The health experts have
recently revealed at the First Arabian Gulf Public Health Research Conference,
which was organized by the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
in Abu Dhabi, that 25.4% of youths in the UAE are smokers.
The World Health
Organization this year called on its partners and the governments of all
countries to raise taxes on tobacco to reach levels that limit its consumption,
and it called on individuals and civil society organizations to encourage their
governments to raise those taxes, as research has shown that raising taxes is the
most effective means to reduce tobacco use among the low-income categories and prevent
youths from starting smoking, while increasing taxes by 10% reduces tobacco
consumption by 4% in high-income countries, and by up to 8% in most low and
middle-income countries. The Organization explained that global tobacco kills
the lives of nearly 6 million people annually, and more than 600 thousand
people, of whom are non-smokers who die from the indirect inhalation of smoke,
and it expected that it will lead to the death of more than 8 million people
annually by 2030.
28/09/2014
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