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World Health
Day 2012
Ageing is a lifelong and inevitable process.
It is a progressive change in the physical, mental asocial structure
individuals which begins before birth and end with death. This journey
into the uncharted realms of old age is an adventure of continual
learning, adjustments and most important of all mentoring what is good
and admirable. The journey begins even before a person is born, right
from mother’s womb. The nourishment and care that the mother and her
unborn baby receive will determine hoe the newborn will fare in the
world. Under nutrition in the womb
may lead to diseases in adult life, such as circulatory diseases,
diabetes and disorders of lipid metabolism. Obese and overweight
adolescents run the risk of developing chronic diseases like diabetes,
circulatory diseases, cancer and musculo-skeletal
disorders in adult life and in old age.
The inevitability of ageing depends on many
factors. An individual’s functional capacity continues to grow throughout
childhood and adolescence, reaching its peak in early adulthood and
declines naturally thereafter. This slope of decline is determined several external
factors such as access to housing, adequate and safe water supply
nutrition and ……..
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Consultation
on Health Financing for Universal Coverage on 14-15 December 2011
 
Ministry of Health and Family of Maldives and WHO Country Office
in Maldives in
collaboration and with technical assistance from the WHO Regional Office
for South-East Asia (SEARO, New
Delhi, India)
organized a Consultation on Health Financing for Universal Coverage on
14-15 December 2011 in Bandos Island Resort and
Spa. The purpose of the meeting was to provide a platform to discuss
international experiences in health financing and options for strategic
planning for health system financing in the context of decentralization
and corporatization in the Maldives.
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