First Ever Global Youth Meet on Health in India from November 14 – 19, 2006 in New Delhi
\nPrime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to inaugurate the event at National Stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Saturday, November 11, 2006 — (Business Wire India) — The first ever Global Youth Meet 2006 (GYM 2006) will be held in India between November 14 to 19. GYM 2006 is being organized by HRIDAY-SHAN (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth and Student Health Action Network) to empower young people to become informed advocates for policies towards promoting health. <\/p>\n
National and international health experts, about 10,000 students and 270 delegates from 37 countries will participate in GYM 2006. Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh will inaugurate the meet on November 14, 2006 at the National Stadium in New Delhi. <\/p>\n
The Global Youth Meet will travel to Agra from November 15 to 18 and a total of 220 youth leaders in the age group of 14-19 years will engage in four days of extensive deliberations. International experts from the World Health Organization, World Heart Federation, American Cancer Society, UNAIDS, UNESCO, UNDP, Clinton Global Initiative, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Bank as well as a host of Indian experts and health advocates will interact with the students. Health-related subjects, such as health and development, appropriate diet and nutrition, physical activity, stress management, environment conservation, tobacco and alcohol avoidance, healthy gender relations and promotion of peace and non violence will be discussed over several sessions during the meet. <\/p>\n
Explaining the objectives of GYM, Hony. Executive Director of HRIDAY-SHAN Dr. K. Srinath Reddy said ” The present and future health of children across the world is threatened by many factors such as a degraded environment, unhealthy foods, tobacco marketing, unsafe roads, physical inactivity and HIV-AIDS. While it is important to provide young people adequate information about how to protect their health, it is also essential to ensure that governmental and societal policies promote and support health and not create unhealthy living conditions”.<\/p>\n
“At this unique health meet we aim to discuss health issues and encourage students to actively articulate their demands for appropriate governmental policy to create a healthy living conditions. We will also use skill building workshops where they will increase their capacity to promote healthy environments at school, home and the community,” Dr Reddy added<\/p>\n
International experts like Janet Vo\u00fbte, Chief Executive Officer, World Heart Federation Geneva; Dr. Chris Dawe from Clinton Global Initiative Dr. Carolyn Dresler, Head of the Unit for Tobacco and Cancer at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France; Ms. Anna White, Coordinator of Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control (GPTC), and Dr. Robert Beaglehole, Director of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion at WHO, Geneva will be participating in this youth meet. Several eminent Indians will also be among the resource persons.<\/p>\n
On November 19, 2006, the Global Youth Meet will conclude with the launch of the Youth for Health (Y4H) campaign. Y4H, an initiative on a global scale, will conduct regular exchange of views on policy issues related to health, have concerted global e-advocacy and regularly coordinate national and international action programmes. Y4H envisages a worldwide movement of health advocacy by young change agents and will provide a powerful global platform of advocacy for health-promoting policies. This network will be facilitated by e-connectivity and assisted by HRIDAY-SHAN, WHO, World Heart Federation and GLOBALink.<\/p>\n
About HRIDAY-SHAN<\/p>\n
HRIDAY (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth) – SHAN(Student Health Action Network) is a voluntary organization of health professionals and social scientists, engaged in activities aiming to promote health awareness and informed health activism among social and college students in India, since 1992. Its work won international recognition through the WHO Tobacco Control Award in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}