Córdoba in Argentina, Fortaleza in Brazil and Manchester in the United Kingdom obtained praise at a healthy cities summit, cohhosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), philanthropies of Bloomberg and vital strategies.
The Argentine city won recognition for its policy to eliminate sugary and artificially sweetened drinks, together with ultra -processed foods, of all schools by 2026. Until now, 15,000 primary schools in 26 schools have benefited.
“We are seeing a lot of progress in local leadership and mayors around the world assuming the fight and trying to reduce the rates of the world's greatest murderers.heart disease, diabetes, cancers and respiratory diseases, ”said Jaimie Guerra, WHO communications officer.
The Summit in Paris brought the mayors and officials of the 61 cities of the 61 cities around the world to discuss how to build healthier local communities.
The WHO General Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated the three winners, who, according to him, were a model for other cities to follow, at the forefront of the fight against non -communicable diseases and injuries.
Non -transmissible diseases include heart disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases. They are responsible for the vast majority of deaths, said the UN special envoy on climatic ambition and solutions, Michael Bloomberg, who was also at the summit in France.
Diseases “are responsible for more than 80 percent of all deaths worldwide, but the good news is that they are preventable”Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and the three times former mayor of New York City.
Breathing more easily
Strength winner He established his first legal framework for the surveillance of air quality in an attempt to stop air pollution and help people breathe more easily.
The authorities of the Brazilian city in 2023 adopted a decree that guarantees the local monitoring of air pollutants and the installation of low -cost sensors for a better data collection.
Greater Manchester Meanwhile, he has continued his efforts to curb tobacco consumption, introducing his first 6.5 smokeless acres park.
Northern English City also launched a set of smokeless tools for hospitals and is developing a broader tool kit to support organizations to create spoiled spaces.
Address the greatest murderers in the world
Participants at the Summit of Healthy Cities included representatives of Dhaka in Bangladesh, Helsinki in Finland, the capital of Colombo, Lanka, Lanka, Lusaka in Zambia and Quito in Ecuador.
The participating urban centers are part of the Association of Healthy Cities, a global network of 74 cities launched in 2017 to prevent diseases and non -communicable injury through policies and programs.
“These programs are really making a difference,” said who is Mrs. Guerra. “And in the association, most cities are more than one million people. In total, it covers more than 300 million people.”
