World Health Organisation news

Integrative medical-wellness spa brand SHA Wellness has enhanced its Alicante destination with new sexual health programming. The flagship Spanish site – with 6,000sq m of ... More

World Active has finalised its charter, which it plans to adopt at its first-ever general assembly held during the FIBO Global Fitness in Cologne in ... More

Increasing physical activity globally could prevent up to 5 million deaths each year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO statistics show that one ... More

Banyan Tree Group has announced it’s rolling out three groupwide initiatives to promote wellbeing, in particular mental health, during COVID-19 and beyond. The group is ... More

The pandemic has disrupted or halted critical mental health services in 93 per cent of countries worldwide, according to a new survey by the World ... More

Expo 2020 Dubai has announced that it will likely postpone the event by a year in the wake of the COVD-19 outbreak. Expo 2020 representatives ... More

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed until 2021, following talks between International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ... More

The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is having a severe effect on leisure businesses around the world, as a number of countries have issued lockdowns, closed their ... More

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the majority of adolescents worldwide are not sufficiently physically active, putting their current and future health at ... More

It’s no secret that humans need more than just a roof over their heads to be happy. According to a report recently published by the ... More

TV journalist and presenter Dr Michael Mosley has been announced as a keynote speaker for this year’s inaugural Elevate Conference in London. Mosley, who presents ... More

One in four people worldwide do not meet daily exercise guidelines but need only undertake simple tasks to reduce risk of death and heart disease ... More

The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) has released its eight trends to look out for in 2017 in spa and wellness, identifying saunas, architecture, art, beauty, ... More

Close to 200 UNESCO member states have adopted a revised International Charter for Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport which aims to improve physical activity ... More

Exercising more, losing weight and drinking less could slash the the number of Britons getting cancer by 84,000 a year, according to health experts. New ... More

The World Health Organisation has sets its sights on overcoming the growing physical inactivity epidemic by outlining a 10-year strategy to get Europeans moving more. ... More

The Rio de Janeiro water which athletes will be swimming and sailing in for the 2016 Olympic Games contains so much human faeces that competitors ... More

Physical activity experts and other relevant stakeholders are being asked to submit their views on a World Health Organisation (WHO) investigation into ending childhood obesity. ... More

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued new guidelines on sugar consumption that say adults and children from most countries in the world should roughly ... More

Around a quarter of preventable cancers in the United States are thought to be impacted by people either being obese or overweight, or being physically ... More

Major stakeholders at the Medical & Wellness Tourism Summit 2014 in New Delhi, India, discussed the need for a national accreditation body for the sector, ... More

Technology developer X-Doria has created a new piece of wearable kit allowing parents to set physical activity goals for their children, also enabling them to ... More

The European Court of Justice is considering a test case which could oblige employers to treat obesity as a disability, potentially leaving them with a ... More

Three quarters of British men will be overweight or obese by 2030 because of current levels of inactivity and poor diets, according to a study ... More

US-based educational entertainment developer LeapFrog has unveiled one of the first wearable activity trackers designed for children. Given the increasing concern surrounding levels of childhood ... More