WHO Regional Director for Western Pacific reports alcohol related harms accounts for 640,000 deaths per year

Posted on April 25, 2012 • Filed under: Travel News

HONG KONG, 19 April 2012 – Countries need to recognize that alcohol consumption is a big and growing public health threat and take appropriate action, experts concluded at a WHO regional meeting on the prevention and control of the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) through reduction of alcohol-related harm. WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific Dr Shin Young-soo opened the four-day meeting on 10 April by calling alcohol a “chief culprit” behind the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases, which accounts for four out of every five deaths in the Western Pacific. Read article

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