Margaret Chan: It is necessary to pay close attention to the influence that the urbanization brings to health

Margaret Chan: It is necessary to pay close attention to the influence that the urbanization brings to health
Margaret Chan: It is necessary to pay close attention to the influence that the urbanization brings to health
Www.xinhuanet.com Bangkok 9 Cable of the 7th of moon (reporter Zhu Li) The 28th Meeting of Southeast Asia health minister of large district of World Health Organization opens in Bangkok on the 7th, Margaret Chan, Secretary General of WHO, delivers a speech at the opening ceremony, calls upon the countries all over the world to pay close attention to the health problem of urban population, because city development has brought unprecedented influence to mankind. Margaret Chan says: "The population of living in the urban areas in the whole world has already exceeded the rural area, this is unprecedented. By 2030, have 6 people live in cities and towns or city in the global every 10 people, Asia and city of Africa population growth the most swift and most violent among them. " She says, just because of this, promotes the urban hygiene to become this year " World Hygiene Day " Theme. Margaret Chan thinks, centralized population, opportunity and service in the city, but is hiding the health risk concentrated too, for example pollution, air, noise pollution, epidemic situation propagating, unhealthy life style which cause many kinds of chronic disease of food and source of water,etc.. "So it is necessary for us to pay close attention to all sorts of influence that the urbanization bring to health, whether no matter good respect or bad respect. " Margaret Chan reminds and says, though WHO has already claimed to relieve popular alarm of global range of first type H 1 N 1st influenza on August 10, but people should not adopt a casual attitude, because first type H 1 N 1st influenza virus of some focus areas is still very active, among them include some places of Southeast Asia. In addition, seeing that the young crowd is infected with this kind of virus and presented the serious case easily, she advises the relevant organization to pay attention to protecting the high-risk group and maintaining vigilance to the epidemic situation. The 28th Meeting of Southeast Asia health minister of large district of WHO is held on the 7th, last 4 days, come from nearly numerous people such as the health ministers and officers of 11 East Asia, South Asia and country in Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Indonesia, Burma, India,etc.'s participating in the conference. Will canvass the development of the hygiene industry of this area, challenge that faces at the meeting, and make the draft for the relevant policy in the future.


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