WHO points to four important industries for 2.7 million deaths per year in Europe.
On Wednesday 12th of June 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported the 4 main industries notably (tobacco, ultra-processed foods (UPFs), fossil fuels, and alcohol) for more than two million people are death in Europe each year, pointing them out of postponing public programs that could affect their financial standing. These “4 sectors kill more than 7,000 people in our region daily,” Hans Kluge, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe region, which includes Central Asia, remarked in a statement.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the combining of these industry sectors into a limited number of multinational corporations has given them substantial control over the political as well as juridical environments in which they run, along with the ability to interfere with public interest guidelines that may affect the profits they make.
Hans Kluge said that industry techniques included targeting weaker people using specific advertising techniques, misunderstanding consumers, and offering misleading statements about the advantages of their goods or environmental qualities.”These practices put at risk the last century’s public health advances and slow down countries from meeting their health objectives,” it warned.
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Even the WHO stated that industry interference affected efforts to fight chronic illnesses which include (cancer, heart disease, as well as diabetes). According to the World Health Organization, about (60%) of European adults and one-third of children are (overweight or obese). According to the most current data from 2017, one in every five deaths in Europe caused by cancer and heart disease was the result of bad eating habits. The WHO advised governments to respond by putting stricter rules on the marketing of harmful products, unfair behaviors, and pressure.
Whereas Hans Kluge, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe region stated that people always need to put preference above profit. The study “Commercial Factors Affecting Infectious Diseases in the World Health Organization’s European Region” is available on the World Health Organization’s web page.
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