Healthy diets help protect against malnutrition in all its forms, as well as noncommunicable diseases including diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer, according to WHO.
#HealthyEating#Nutrition
Depression is a common mental disorder, different from regular mood changes and feelings about everyday life: it involves a depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities for long periods of time, according to WHO.
#MentalHealth#Depression
Headache disorders are among the most common disorders of the nervous system, yet worldwide only a minority of people with them are appropriately diagnosed and treated by a health care provider, according to WHO.
#Migraine#GlobalHealth
An estimated 5.4 million people worldwide are bitten by snakes each year, with 1.8 to 2.7 million cases of envenoming, according to WHO's 2026 fact sheet.
#SnakebiteAwareness#GlobalHealth
Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5 to 29 years worldwide, according to WHO's 2026 fact sheet.
#RoadSafety#PublicHealth
Epilepsy is a chronic noncommunicable disease of the brain that affects around 50 million people worldwide, making it one of the most common neurological diseases globally, according to WHO's 2024 fact sheet.
#EpilepsyAwareness#BrainHealth
In 2022, 2.1 billion people faced financial hardship from health costs, including 1.6 billion living in poverty or pushed deeper into it due to out-of-pocket health expenses, according to WHO.
#UniversalHealthCoverage#HealthCosts
Primary health care spans prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care, as close as feasible to people's everyday environment, according to WHO.
#PrimaryHealthCare#HealthForAll
Seasonal influenza causes around a billion cases worldwide every year, including 3 to 5 million severe cases, according to WHO's 2025 fact sheet.
#FluSeason#RespiratoryHealth
An estimated 866 million people, almost 1 in 9 worldwide, fall ill after eating contaminated food every year, according to WHO's 2026 fact sheet.
#FoodSafety#SafeFood
Approximately 1 in 6 laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections worldwide were resistant to antibiotics in 2023, according to WHO.
#AntimicrobialResistance#HealthAwareness
About half of the world's population is now at risk of dengue, with an estimated 100 to 400 million infections each year, according to WHO's 2025 fact sheet.
#DengueAwareness#PublicHealth
In 2024, there were an estimated 282 million malaria cases and 610,000 deaths worldwide across 80 countries, according to WHO.
#MalariaAwareness#GlobalHealth
In 2024, an estimated 10.7 million people fell ill with tuberculosis worldwide, according to WHO. Global efforts against TB have saved an estimated 83 million lives since 2000.
#EndTB#HealthForAll
Tobacco kills more than 7 million people each year, including over 1.6 million non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke, according to WHO's 2026 fact sheet.
#TobaccoFree#PublicHealth
In 2021, 57 million people worldwide were living with dementia, and there are nearly 10 million new cases every year, according to WHO.
#DementiaAwareness#BrainHealth
Asthma affected an estimated 363 million people worldwide in 2023, and it is the most common chronic disease among children, according to WHO.
#AsthmaAwareness#ChildHealth