Greece Awarded by UN and WHO for Chronic Diseases and Childhood Obesity Prevention

Deputy Health Minister Irini Agapidaki receives UN and WHO grant for Greece for its show successful the prevention of chronic diseases and puerility obesity. Credit: Ministry of Health

The United Nations and the World Health Organization awarded Greece for its show successful prevention of chronic diseases and puerility obesity.

At a peculiar grant ceremonial organized by the UN and WHO successful New York City, Greece received the grant for its show successful the prevention of chronic diseases and childhood obesity. This is the archetypal clip that Greece has been awarded by the UN and it was among the fewer campaigner countries worldwide that claimed the distinction.

Greek Deputy Minister of Health, Irini Agapidaki received the award. In her code she said that “the astir important origin for alteration is beardown governmental commitment.”

“Just arsenic 1 cannot physique a location without gathering materials, without the close people, without a methodical mode and reliable design, specified effectual enactment connected prevention issues cannot beryllium developed simply with governmental promises and goodwill,” she said.

In her speech, the lawman wellness curate stressed the value of governmental volition successful the wellness sector.

“Strong governmental committedness indispensable beryllium translated into enactment based connected scientifically documented practices, evaluation, accountability, sustainability,” adding that that the prevention contented successful Greece’s wellness assemblage was an country that lagged down successful the past 40 years. “We managed to screen the mislaid crushed and beryllium capable to supply expertise to different countries,” Agapidaki said.

“Prevent” program

The UN grant highlights Greece’s advancement with flagship interventions specified arsenic the “Prolamvano” (Prevent) program, done which much than 4 cardinal citizens person already benefited from escaped preventive check-ups, arsenic good arsenic the National Action Against Childhood Obesity successful collaboration with UNICEF.

Earlier, astatine the Summit connected the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases, Mrs. Agapidaki said that governmental committedness indispensable beryllium transformed into enactment with a absorption connected radical and Primary Health Care. She emphasized that prevention successful Greece has been integrated into the regular lives of citizens, with the “Prolamvano” programme identifying thousands of cases successful a timely mode and preventing avoidable losses from chronic diseases.

“Prevention, diagnosis, and attraction are not isolated actions,” she noted. “They represent a broad attraction process that respects the idiosyncratic and ensures adjacent entree for all. Each statistic represents a beingness saved, a household that benefited from aboriginal intervention, a assemblage that was empowered”, noted Mrs. Agapidaki.

Τhe lawman wellness curate said that Greece co-chairs the UN Group of Friends connected Obesity and volition big the World Conference connected Childhood Obesity successful February 2026 successful Athens, successful collaboration with UNICEF.