‘Promoting wellbeing of all people is a must’

PHEC chairman says health and wellbeing are much more than absence of disease

LAHORE: Creating awareness among the people is the key to achieving the targets of United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal No. 3, which focuses on ensuring healthy lives and promoting the wellbeing of people of all ages, said Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) Chairperson Dr Mohammad Nizamuddin.

He was addressing the inaugural session of a three-day international conference on health and wellbeing organised by the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) on Monday.



Dr Nizamuddin said that the SDG 3 calls for an integrated approach to progress across multiple goals, including alleviating poverty and hunger, commitment to ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases by 2030. "SDG 3 aims at achieving universal health coverage, and providing access to safe and effective medicines and vaccines for all."



He said that our health is affected due to various factors such as environment, existence or absence of a support network, where people live, finances or lack of them as well as lifestyle.

"Health and wellbeing are much more than the absence of disease.

It includes a wide spectrum of issues like nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, healthy environment, psychology and public health policy."

Renowned local and international scholars, including Lahore College for Women University vice chancellor also addressed the conference and highlighted the exigency of an awareness drive about health and wellbeing at all levels of society.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 12^th, 2017.