WHO: “Health has an obligatory place on any post-2015 agenda”.

May 27th, 2014

During her address to the sixty-seventh World Health Assembly, Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, made multiple references highlighting her determination to take action against the ongoing obesity crisis and prevalence of diet-related non-communicable diseases. She pointed out that in a time where diabetes treatments alone absorb close to fifty percent of some middle income countries' health  budget and childhood obesity becomes a global problem, “…this century must be an era where prevention receives at least as much priority as cure”. This includes the establishment of a high-level Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity that will publish a consensus report in early 2015 and define science-based opportunities for intervention.