The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is a good alternative to advertise wholesome existence by means of sport.
With Qatar quickly to take the centre stage of world sports activities, the World Well being Group and the Qatar Ministry of Public Well being are driving efforts to assist make this 12 months’s celebration of soccer, the “world’s sport”, a beacon for well being and security, and a launchpad for sharing classes with main sporting occasions sooner or later.
Set to be held in Doha from November 20 to December 18, the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar is a singular platform for us to advertise well being internationally and to speak that sport and well being go collectively. They're intertwined and, collectively, they play out in a celebration of pleasure, wellbeing, and solidarity for billions of individuals all over the world.
Our partnership in Sport For Well being has two foremost aims: first, to work with key companions to assist make the 2022 FIFA World Cup – the primary to be held within the Center East – wholesome and protected; and second, to seize and share classes realized with our companions and organisers of different giant sporting occasions.
The partnership, which is supported by FIFA and Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Supply and Legacy as a part of a drive to advertise well being globally by means of soccer, started final October. Since then, we've labored in shut collaboration to advertise bodily well being and wellbeing in a number of methods. These embrace selling well being and dietary consciousness in the course of the Holy Month of Ramadan, participating within the third version of the “Stroll the Speak: Well being For All Problem” initiative in Geneva, and elevating consciousness of the harms attributable to smoking on World No Tobacco Day.
By specializing in bodily exercise, wholesome diets and diet, tobacco management, psychological well being, and well being safety, we're working to offer steerage on how you can assist enhance the bodily and psychological well being of all folks globally by means of sports activities.
Our objectives are bold, and primarily based on three key pillars: First, selling well being by means of strategic collaboration with governments and sporting organisations, reaching billions of individuals by means of soccer and different sports activities; second, making main sporting occasions protected for followers, gamers and workers; and third, sharing info with the general public to assist them make wholesome life-style decisions.
The partnership is leveraging this 12 months’s FIFA World Cup to advertise the well being advantages of bodily exercise for all by means of sport by creating new instruments to achieve folks of all ages, significantly youth. As companions, we've been busy creating science-based steerage by means of technical engagement to speak the significance of bodily exercise.
One of many key findings is that good psychological well being can usually be linked to common bodily exercise, which incorporates sports activities or, merely strolling and taking part in bodily actions with others. This will additionally assist to advertise a way of inclusion and group.
Whether or not you're concerned with high-intensity exercises and even simply gardening, each effort counts in the direction of a wholesome physique and thoughts. To additional promote wholesome lives, we're underscoring the significance of diet by demonstrating the advantages of providing wholesome meals decisions at giant sporting occasions.
In the identical vein, on the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, smoke-free stadiums and bans on tobacco advertising will assist to guard folks from this lethal product. The advantages of those measures will assist promote and defend the well being of sports activities followers at future giant sporting occasions.
Lastly, retaining sporting occasions protected by means of a dedication to well being safety is a basic pillar of the challenge.
From making certain the implementation of mass gathering protocols inside and outside stadiums, to adhering to manage measures to guard folks from infectious illness outbreaks, we're dedicated to working with companions to make sure all vital steps are taken to make sporting occasions, such because the FIFA World Cup, protected and safe.
As everyone knows, teamwork is important for fulfillment in sports activities. The identical is true for safeguarding and selling well being. We're dedicated to repeatedly to attempt collectively, for this 12 months’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and past to leverage the worldwide energy of sport to assist folks lead the healthiest lives doable.
The views expressed on this article are the authors’ personal and don't essentially replicate Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
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