A presentation on the importance of health presented on April 7 2016. This is just about the theme of 2016 World Health Day and a short awareness on diabetes -how to control it by simple tricks .

1. WORLD HEALTH DAY
7th APRIL
Presented by
Anoop A D
GHSS Marayamuttom

3. THEME OF 2016
• To create awareness on diabetes, a preventable non
communicable disease.
Goals:
• scale up prevention
• strengthen care
• enhance surveillance
“Beat Diabetes”

4. WHO IS WHO ???
• Health organization under UNO.
• Founded on April 7, 1948
• Head quarters at Geneva, Switzerland
• Has 6 regional offices; one in India.

5. DIABETES
• Also called diabetes mellitus (Sugar).
• Abnormal increase in sugar or glucose in the blood.
• In world 371 million people are diabetic patients
• 7th leading disease of death –WHO

6. • Causes due to deficiency of insulin hormone.
• Symptoms of diabetes include
● increased urine output,
● excessive thirst,
● weight loss,
● hunger,
● fatigue, slow healing wounds etc

7. DIABETES IN INDIA
• One of the countries with highest number of diabetic patients.
• 40 million patients as per 2007 data.
• Predicted a rise to 79.4 million by 2030.

8. WHAT WE CAN DO ????
• Aware common people-diabetic’s effect
• Conduct medical camps.
• Have fruits instead of sweets.
• Suggest regular health check-ups.

10. CONCLUSION
Lifestyle changes;
● Losing weight
● Eating healthy
● Increasing physical activity

11. REFERENE
• www.ncbi.nlm.gov
• www.heart.org
• www.archivehealthcare
• www.who.in
• www.en.wikipedia.org
• www.images.agoramedia.com
• www.Yourhometown.com