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WHA77: Individual statement on economics and health for all and well-being and health promotion

WHA77: Individual statement on economics and health for all and well-being and health promotion
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WHO World Health Assemblies
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WHA77 Individual Statement on wellbeing and health promotion
1 May, 2024
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The NCD Alliance welcomes the call by the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for to recognition of prevention as an economic investment. We urge Member States to harmonise fiscal policies with public health policy and increase excise taxes on unhealthy products. 

Read more in the individual statement by NCD Alliance, World Cancer Research Fund International, and the World Obesity Federation.

Related Resource: 
WHA77 Constituency Statement: Draft fourteenth general programme of work, 2025-2028 [2]
WHA77 Constituency Statement: Universal Health Coverage [3]
WHA77 Constituency Statement: INB to negotiate a WHO instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response [4]
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[1] https://old.ncdalliance.org/sites/default/files/resource_files/WHA77_Agenda_Item_15_Statement-1.pdf
[2] https://old.ncdalliance.org/resources/wha77-constituency-statement-draft-fourteenth-general-programme-of-work-2025-2028
[3] https://old.ncdalliance.org/resources/wha77-constituency-statement-universal-health-coverage
[4] https://old.ncdalliance.org/resources/wha77-constituency-statement-inb-to-negotiate-a-who-instrument-on-pandemic-prevention-preparedness-and-response
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