Editing World Health Organization (section)

====Life course and lifestyle====
WHO works to "reduce [[morbidity]] and [[Death|mortality]] and improve health during key stages of life, including pregnancy, childbirth, the [[Infant|neonatal period]], [[childhood]] and adolescence, and improve [[Sexual health|sexual]] and [[reproductive health]] and promote active and healthy aging for all individuals", for instance with the [[Special Programme on Human Reproduction]].<ref name="WHO"/>{{rp|39–45}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/hrp/en/index.html |title=Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction |publisher=WHO |access-date=9 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218011849/http://www.who.int/hrp/en/index.html |archive-date=18 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

It also tries to prevent or reduce risk factors for "health conditions associated with use of tobacco, alcohol, drugs and other psychoactive substances, unhealthy diets and physical inactivity and [[unsafe sex]]".<ref name="WHO"/>{{rp|50–55}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/topics/tobacco/en/ |title=Tobacco |publisher=WHO |access-date=26 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415033541/http://www.who.int/topics/tobacco/en/ |archive-date=15 April 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/en/ |title=Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health |publisher=WHO |access-date=26 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100621140037/http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/en/ |archive-date=21 June 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The WHO works to improve nutrition, [[food safety]] and [[food security]] and to ensure this has a positive effect on [[public health]] and [[sustainable development]].<ref name="WHO"/>{{rp|66–71}}

In April 2019, the WHO released new recommendations stating that children between the ages of two and five should spend no more than one hour per day engaging in sedentary behaviour in front of a screen and that children under two should not be permitted any sedentary screen time.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18516669/screen-time-limits-who-children-health-physical-activity-sleep-tv-phones |title=The WHO's new screen time limits aren't really about screens |last=Becker |first=Rachel |date=25 April 2019 |website=[[The Verge]] |access-date=15 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610222207/https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/25/18516669/screen-time-limits-who-children-health-physical-activity-sleep-tv-phones |archive-date=10 June 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2025, the WHO released a new guideline ''Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes'' which strongly recommends reducing sodium intake to less than 2 g/day and conditionally recommends replacing regular table salt with lower-sodium salt substitutes that contain potassium.  This recommendation is intended for adults (not pregnant women or children) in general populations, excluding individuals with kidney impairments or with other circumstances or conditions that might compromise potassium excretion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Overview of the WHO guideline on lower-sodium salt substitutes |url=https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/nutrition-and-food-safety/events/2025/launch-of-lsss-guideline-presentation-1-overview.pdf |first=Rain |last=Yamamoto |date=27 January 2025 |access-date=31 January 2025 |publisher=World Health Organization }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes: WHO guideline |url=https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240105591 |date=27 January 2025 |access-date=31 January 2025 |publisher=World Health Organization }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Use of lower-sodium salt substitutes: WHO guideline |url=https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/380227/9789240105591-eng.pdf?sequence=1 |date=27 January 2025 |access-date=31 January 2025 |publisher=World Health Organization }}</ref>