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The World Health Organization (WHO) urged the capital's government to investigate the causes of the high levels of pollution in CDMX and recommended finding sustainable solutions, since Hoy No Circula is only useful in the short term. «What happened in Mexico City? What was done differently? Something changed. There has to be something that was done differently this year,” Carlos Dora, coordinator of Public Health and Environment at the WHO, told REFORMA. «It is necessary to investigate the causes, to know what has become new. "I think we have to investigate what the source is." What needs to be implemented are structural measures to provide a sustainable solution to the problem, improve air quality and reduce the effects on the health of the inhabitants, said Dora. The expert cited the case of the administration of the former Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, who, when investigating the causes of pollution in his city, found that some buildings – just a few – were responsible for 55 percent of the pollution.
The authorities demanded the cleaning of boilers and filters and managed to lower pollution levels, Dora said. «Some issues that should be looked at (in CDMX) more closely are fuel sources. That is essential. Maybe there was a change in the quality of the fuel or the quality of the engines," he said. Only during the Bahamas Mobile Number List previous six-year term, this disease caused 500,000 deaths, according to data from the Ministry of Health. To this factor it is necessary to add the rest of the chronic-degenerative diseases, which are not only the most complicated to treat, they are also the ones that demand the greatest economic resources, since their treatment is expensive and very long-lasting. “In 1990, diseases such as diabetes, chronic kidney failure and ischemic heart disease were not listed as priority care conditions; Today these diseases occupy the first three places that cause the greatest disability.
This is an example of how chronic non-communicable diseases have become the main health concern,” warns Cristóbal Thompson, executive director of the Mexican Association of Pharmaceutical Research Industries (AMIIF). This problem is not only a matter of the older age group, since at all levels of adulthood and even among infants, health problems occur that were not frequent before, as a result of the sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy lifestyles that predominate among urban populations. The World Health Organization (WHO) has indicated that Mexico is the nation with the highest obesity in the world, while the second Study on Health Systems in Mexico OECD 2016 highlights that one in three children is overweight or obese, and In the adult population, 71% suffer from it. This disease is called high risk because other conditions arise from it, such as diabetes and heart and liver diseases. The above impacts not only on people's health, but also on their work activity. The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) estimated in 2014 that the annual impact of obesity on productivity was 400 million lost work hours, which implies 32% of the formal jobs created that year.
The authorities demanded the cleaning of boilers and filters and managed to lower pollution levels, Dora said. «Some issues that should be looked at (in CDMX) more closely are fuel sources. That is essential. Maybe there was a change in the quality of the fuel or the quality of the engines," he said. Only during the Bahamas Mobile Number List previous six-year term, this disease caused 500,000 deaths, according to data from the Ministry of Health. To this factor it is necessary to add the rest of the chronic-degenerative diseases, which are not only the most complicated to treat, they are also the ones that demand the greatest economic resources, since their treatment is expensive and very long-lasting. “In 1990, diseases such as diabetes, chronic kidney failure and ischemic heart disease were not listed as priority care conditions; Today these diseases occupy the first three places that cause the greatest disability.
This is an example of how chronic non-communicable diseases have become the main health concern,” warns Cristóbal Thompson, executive director of the Mexican Association of Pharmaceutical Research Industries (AMIIF). This problem is not only a matter of the older age group, since at all levels of adulthood and even among infants, health problems occur that were not frequent before, as a result of the sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy lifestyles that predominate among urban populations. The World Health Organization (WHO) has indicated that Mexico is the nation with the highest obesity in the world, while the second Study on Health Systems in Mexico OECD 2016 highlights that one in three children is overweight or obese, and In the adult population, 71% suffer from it. This disease is called high risk because other conditions arise from it, such as diabetes and heart and liver diseases. The above impacts not only on people's health, but also on their work activity. The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) estimated in 2014 that the annual impact of obesity on productivity was 400 million lost work hours, which implies 32% of the formal jobs created that year.