Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

WHO's Health Initiative to Kick off in Egypt


Thu 30 May 2019 | 12:00 PM
Ahmed Yasser

World Health Organization ''WHO'' uncovered an initiative namedd "sport for health" in five Egyptian universities in Upper Egypt.

WHO defines physical activity as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy such as; activities undertaken while working, playing, carrying out household chores, travelling and engaging in recreational pursuits.

World Health Organization

Noteworthy, more than 80% of the adolescents in the world do not do enough physical activity and hence policies were set to fix insufficient physical activity, According to the WHO.

The WHO's initiative established several partnerships with member states in their efforts to promote physical activity including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the United Nations Sport for Development and Peace.