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 Tobacco-free sports: Towards a tobacco-free generation

WHO has selected “Tobacco-free sports” as the theme for World No Tobacco Day 2002 to:

expose how tobacco companies manipulate sporting events and teams through advertising, sponsorship and promotion

show how tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion run counter to the ideals of health and fair play embodied in sports

stress that tobacco use negatively affects health, sporting performance and physical fitness

demonstrate how the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) will seek global and national solutions for tobacco-related problems.

Tobacco is the only legal consumer product that kills when used exactly as intended by the manufacturer. World No Tobacco Day will help to save more lives and to limit the damage caused by tobacco use.

The key messages of this year’s World No Tobacco Day are:

Tobacco and sports do not mix.

Tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion should be banned.

Tobacco consumption and exposure to second-hand smoke should be prohibited.

Future generations must be protected from the preventable death and disease caused by tobacco.

Health and healthy living is everyone’s right.

All countries have a moral obligation to adopt the WHO FCTC to save lives.

 
Prix PDF Imprimer

Chaque année, l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) décerne des prix à des personnalités ou organisations importantes ayant apporté une contribution majeure à la lutte antitabac et au succès de la Journée mondiale sans tabac et du thème choisi. Ces prix témoignent de la reconnaissance de l'OMS pour tout le temps et les efforts qu'elles ont consacré aux campagnes et à la lutte antitabac.

Cette année, six prix ont été remis à l'occasion de la Journée mondiale sans tabac. Les lauréats sont :

Dr Mariam Al-Jalahma, Sous-secrétaire adjointe aux soins de santé primaires et à la santé publique (Bahreïn)

Dr Hamdy El Sayed, Professeur de chirurgie cardiothoracique, Président du Syndicat médical égyptien (Égypte)

Dr Alireza Mesdaghinia, Adjoint à la santé, Ministère de la Santé et de l'éducation médicale (République islamique d'Iran)

Mme Mawya Zawawi Hammad, Fondatrice et Directrice générale de Lina and Green Hands Society (Jordanie)

Dr Jawad Ahmed Al Lawati, Directeur du département des maladies non transmissibles, Ministère de la Santé (Oman)

Dr Alaa Aldeen Abdalla Abo Zed, Professeur associé, Faculté de médecine de l'Université de Khartoum (Soudan)

Ces personnes sont de fervents défenseurs de la lutte antitabac et, à cet égard, ont participé activement à diverses activités au niveau national, en particulier à l'élaboration d'une législation antitabac et à la mobilisation des parties prenantes pour l'adoption et la mise en œuvre de politiques et de mesures de lutte antitabac. Elles ont joué un rôle crucial dans le suivi des différentes étapes et l'application de la règlementation en la matière.

 
Advocacy materials PDF Imprimer

Regional Director's message

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Brochure

English | French

Fact sheets

English | French

Image of the World No Tobacco Day 2005 poster, showing a number of health professionals from the various medical disciplines, explaining exactly who they are and the role they can play in support of tobacco control, in Arabic, English and French.

Poster (Health professionals against tobacco)

Image of the World No Tobacco Day 2005 poster, showing the code of practice for health professionals on tobacco control, in Arabic, English and French.

Poster (Code of practice)

 
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Disease surveillance PDF Imprimer

Recommended case classifications of diphtheria

A probable case of diptheria is a case that meets the clinical description of an illness characterized by laryngitis or pharyngitis or tonsillitis, and by an adherent membrane of the tonsils, pharynx and/or nose.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case is a probable case that is laboratory confirmed or linked epidemiologically to a laboratory-confirmed case of isolation of Corynebacterium diphtheriae from a clinical specimen, or fourfold or greater rise in serum antibody (but only if both serum samples were obtained before the administration of diphtheria toxoid or antitoxin).

Surveillance of diphtheria consists of a routine monthly report of probable or confirmed diphtheria cases; and immediate investigation of all diphtheria outbreaks with collection of case-based data. Monitoring the number of infants who have received the third dose of diphtheria toxoid-containing vaccine (DPT3) is also important. In countries with low incidence (usually where coverage is >85%–90%) immediate reporting of case-based data of probable or confirmed cases is recommended from peripheral level to intermediate and central levels.

WHO-recommended surveillance standard of diphtheria

Global and regional data, statistics and graphics

 


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