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Health Promotion & Prevention - An International Priority

In cooperation with the World Health Organization Noncommunicable Disease Prevention (NCD) and Health Promotion program, Humanitarian Resource Institute would like to support the objective:

To reduce the incidence of NCDs and promote positive health and well-being, with particular focus on developing countries.

How? By tackling the major risk factors for NCDs and the underlying determinants of health.

In the year 2002, WHO's health promotion efforts were focused on:

• advancing school health globally, regionally and nationally
• emphasizing the importance and feasibility of healthy ageing
• effective intervention on the main risk factors
• starting work to prepare a global strategy on diet, physical activity and health.
• facilitating work on the most populous countries (Mega Country Health Promotion Network)
• promoting surveillance of health behaviors and process indicators of prevention and health promotion work
• facilitating the development of effective national NCD prevention and health promotion programmes, by emphasizing the role of regional networks (and a Global Forum for Integrated NCD Prevention and Control)

For additional information, visit:

http://www.who.int/hpr

HEALTHIERUS INITIATIVE TARGETS HEALTH PROMOTION AND PREVENTION IN THE U.S.

“Approximately 95% of the 1.4 trillion dollars that we spend as a nation on health goes to direct medical care services, while an estimated 5% is allocated to preventing disease and promoting health. This approach is equivalent to waiting for your car to break down before you take it in for maintenance.  By changing the way we view our health, the Steps initiative helps us move from a disease care system to a true health care system.”

—Secretary Tommy G. Thompson
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

For more information about the HealthierUS Initiative, visit:

http://www.esportsmedicine.org/healthcare.html

SPORTS MEDICINE & SCIENCE INSTITUTE EXPANDS ACCESS TO DISTANCE EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION COURSES

The International Sports Science Association (ISSA) is recognized as the World Leader in Fitness Certification, having provided certification and continuing education for more than 35,000 health and fitness professionals to date.  ISSA acts as a teaching institution and certification agency for fitness trainers, athletic trainers, coaches, physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists, and professionals in every field of healthcare.  Currently there are ISSA trainers in more than 70 countries around the world.

ISSA provides many specialized education programs that meet the continuing education requirements for recertification.  Additionally, ISSA courses are recognized and approved for CEU's by many professional organizations for physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists, and most fitness certifying agencies.