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The SDGs consist of 17 interconnected goals that cover a wide range of issues affecting humanity and the planet.   These goals include eradicating poverty, ensuring quality education, promoting gender equality, and combating climate change, fostering sustainable cities and communities, and many more. The SDGs emphasize the need for collaboration among governments, businesses, civil society organizations, and individuals to achieve these ambitious targets.

Sports have always played a crucial role in promoting physical fitness, mental well-being, and social harmony. Recognized globally for their impact on health and development, sports are not just about competition; they are a powerful tool for fostering good health, inclusivity, and resilience. In alignment with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 – Good Health & Well-being, sports encourage an active lifestyle, reduce health risks, and enhance the overall quality of life.

The Connection Between Sports and Well-being

Engaging in regular physical activity through sports offers numerous health benefits:

1. Physical Health Benefits

Cardiovascular Health: Sports like running, cycling, and swimming improve heart health, reducing the risk of heart diseases and stroke.

Strength and Endurance: Strength training, functional exercises, and body-weight workouts enhance muscle strength, bone density, and overall endurance.

Weight Management: Participating in sports helps regulate weight, improving metabolism and reducing the risk of obesity.

Immunity Boost: A physically active lifestyle strengthens the immune system, making individuals less prone to illnesses.

2. Mental and Emotional Well-being

Reduces Stress and Anxiety: Physical activity releases endorphins, the body’s natural stress relievers, improving mood and reducing anxiety.

Enhances Cognitive Function: Sports help improve concentration, memory, and cognitive skills, benefiting mental sharpness and productivity.

Builds Resilience and Discipline: Regular sports participation fosters perseverance, goal-setting, and self-discipline.

Promotes Social Interaction: Team sports and group workouts strengthen social bonds and reduce feelings of isolation.

ACME Fitness: Empowering an Active and Healthy Lifestyle

As a leader in the fitness industry, ACME Fitness is dedicated to enabling individuals to achieve their fitness goals through premium-quality fitness equipment, innovative workout solutions, and expert guidance. Our mission aligns with SDG Goal 3 by making fitness accessible and effective for everyone.

How ACME Fitness Supports Health and Well-being

State-of-the-Art Home Fitness and Commercial Fitness Equipment: From treadmills and exercise bikes to strength training and functional trainers, ACME Fitness offers a wide range of equipment to support all fitness levels.

Encouraging Body-Weight Training with Centr Body Weight Home Gym: This innovative system enables full-body workouts, making strength training convenient and effective at home.

Personalized Fitness Solutions: We help individuals, gyms, and wellness centers customize workout spaces with high-performance fitness solutions.

Promoting a Culture of Movement: ACME Fitness advocates for active lifestyles through fitness workshops, awareness programs, and collaborations with health and wellness experts.

Conclusion

Sports and fitness are essential for a healthier world. On this International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, let’s acknowledge the role of sports in enhancing well-being and fostering a more active and resilient society. Whether through structured sports, home workouts, or functional training, staying active is a key step toward achieving a healthier future.

Join ACME Fitness in embracing fitness and well-being! Explore our cutting-edge fitness solutions at www.acmefitness.com and start your journey toward a healthier you.

Universal Health Coverage Day 2024 focuses on the role of financial protection in accelerating progress towards UHC. Financial protection ensures that people don’t fall into poverty because of having to pay out-of-pocket for health costs. Over the last 20 years, financial protection has progressively deteriorated, with 2 billion people experiencing financial hardship and 1.3 billion people pushed into poverty due to health spending.  This means that mothers may miss out on the life-saving intervention they need for themselves or their children, people are not diagnosed and treated for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on time, with delays in early treatment leading to severe, untreatable or life-threatening illnesses.

Healthier populations build communities that are more resilient, productive, peaceful and prosperous. Health for all is a pre-requisite to achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In spite of numerous high-level political commitments to achieve UHC by 2030, over half of the world’s population still has no access to essential health services.

The WHO and its 6 regional offices will mark Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day with a series of events, which are open to the public through the live stream links below. These events will recognize and celebrate bold actions towards UHC reforms made by political leaders and decision-makers throughout 2024. Accelerating progress towards UHC by 2030 is achievable but requires reducing financial barriers in accessing health services and protecting people from financial hardship. Learn how WHO is working with countries to make this happen.

Join us live on 12 December, wherever you are!

Live stream: Celebrate bold actions towards UHC Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region on UHC Day 7:30 a.m. CET

Live stream: UHC Day Celebrations in the African, Eastern Mediterranean and European regions 12:30 p.m. CET

Live stream: Universal Health: Equitable access with financial protection in the Americas 6:00 p.m. CET

These UHC Day activities form part of the UHC Partnership Global Meeting 2024 in Lyon, France from 11 to 13 December. 

Over the past decades there have been remarkable improvements to human health around the world. Yet, further progress remains hampered by persistent inequalities between and within populations. Robust health inequality monitoring systems and practices are needed to identify and address unfair differences in health and ensure no one is left behind in the pursuit of better health for all.

The forthcoming WHO book Health inequality monitoring: harnessing data to advance health equity is a comprehensive and contemporary resource for health inequality monitoring, consolidating foundational and emerging knowledge in the field. It aims to support the expansion and strengthening of health inequality monitoring practices across different applications around the world, in service of the broader goal of advancing health equity.

The book covers a range of topics, spanning the importance and general applications of health inequality monitoring, to ways to align monitoring activities to generate impact. It details strategies for sourcing and using data for health inequality monitoring, as well as techniques for analyzing, interpreting and reporting health inequality data. The book was developed for a diverse readership, including technical experts (e.g. statistical, planning, and monitoring and evaluation officers), public health professionals, researchers, analysts and students.

Launch event

A webinar will be held on 11 December 2024, 13:00-14:15 CET to mark the release of the WHO book, Health inequality monitoring: harnessing data to advance health equity. Book contributors will introduce this new resource, and a panel of health equity experts will explore the theme “harnessing data to advance health equity”.

Language interpretation will be available in Arabic, French and Spanish. 

Agenda

Welcome: Pavel Ursu, Acting Director, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO

Opening remarks: Marnie Johnstone, Executive Director, Health Equity Policy Directorate, Strategic Policy Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada 

Introduction to health inequality monitoring at WHO: Ahmad Hosseinpoor, Lead, Health Inequality Monitoring, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO

Overview of book contents: Nicole Bergen, Consultant, Health Inequality Monitoring Team, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO

Endorsements from the Expert Review Group

Panel discussion: 

Ana Estela Haddad, Secretary of Information and Digital Health, Ministry of Health, Brazil

Anthony Adofo Ofosu, Deputy Director-General, Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health, Ghana

Yukiko Asada, Investigator, Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA

Arash Rashidian, Director, Science, Information and Dissemination Division, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, WHO 

Hope Johnson, Special Advisor to the CEO and Director of Measurement, Evaluation and Learning, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Rajat Khosla, Executive Director, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health 

Alia el-Yassir, Director, Department for Gender, Equity, Diversity and Rights for Health, WHO

Moderator: Devaki Nambiar, Consultant, Health Inequality Monitoring Team, Department of Data and Analytics, WHO

Learn more about WHO's work on health inequality monitoring

If you would like to receive periodic emails from the WHO Health Inequality Monitoring team about events, resources and training opportunities, please sign up here. 

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