Vital Stories Around the World, Cities are Driving Action Against the World’s #1 Preventable Killer: Tobacco. The world’s leading preventable killer—tobacco—comes center stage every year on World No Tobacco Day, May 31, bringing attention to the 7 million tobacco-related annual deaths caused by tobacco use and aiming to boost tobacco control policies and efforts.
Campaigns India – Tobacco Control – Tears you apart This testimonial campaign highlights the health harms of using tobacco.
Campaigns India – Tobacco Control – What damage will this cigarette do? This campaign shows the health harms of smoking and highlights the fact that every cigarette does damage.
Campaigns India – Tobacco Control – Clinical This campaign highlights the health harms of smoking bidi cigarettes in India.
Case Studies India’s Ambitious Goals to Curb Hypertension In the state of Punjab in northwest India, one in three adults is afflicted with hypertension, otherwise known as high blood pressure.
Technical Guides A meta-analysis of blood lead levels in India and the attributable burden of disease Blood lead levels remain elevated in India despite the phase-out of leaded petrol. This results in a significant burden of disease in India.
Air Pollution and Health About 5 million people die every year because of poor air quality. This burden falls disproportionately on women and children living without access to clean household energy, and people living in low- and middle-income countries where urbanization has brought increased emissions. Vital Strategies provides technical expertise and consultative services to inform policies and influence public discourse about air pollution and its health impacts around the world.
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention As many as 800 million children globally have unsafe blood lead levels according to the World Health Organization. Vital Strategies’ Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention program was launched with the government of Peru to support ongoing lead poisoning surveillance, raise public awareness about key sources of lead exposure, and improve regulation of lead in consumer products. The program recently expanded to Indonesia where we are partnering with UNICEF and Pure Earth to update the nation’s clinical guidance for lead exposure in children and conduct a comprehensive assessment of lead policies and stakeholders.