During the month of April the Adeje council’s department of health and equality have designed a series of diverse workshops and activities to further health equality and awareness in our community. The activities will be in Spanish, full details are available
https://www.adeje.es/salud/eventos/12274-dia-mundial-de-la-salud, or contact the Adeje department of health, salud@adeje.es.
Today, April 7th, is World Health Day. This is a date chosen by the World Health Organisation to remind us all to care for ourselves and promote healthy lifestyles and habits. Adeje council, of course, is taking part, with a series of programmed activities around this international day and the month of April, dedicated to health.
In March of this year Adeje joined the Spanish network of Health Cities, also a WHO initiative. The World Health Organisation says, “For 30 years the WHO European Healthy Cities Network has brought together some 100 flagship cities and approximately 30 national networks. The flagship cities interact directly with WHO/Europe, while the national networks bring together cities in a given Member State. In both cases WHO provides political, strategic and technical support as well as capacity-building.
“Together the flagship cities and national networks cover some 1400 municipalities. Their shared goal is to engage local governments in political commitment, institutional change, capacity-building, partnership-based planning and innovation.”
In Adeje the aim is the same, says the Adeje councillor for health, Amada Trujillo Becomo; “To make this a healthy borough through integrated and partner programmes, working to end health inequalities for all.”
Included in the events in April are 33 workshops in Adeje’s public schools on a wide variety of themes, including health protection and illness prevention, healthy life habits, sexual health, addiction prevention and healthy eating lessons. From April 12 to 16 the Spanish Cancer Association’s Tenerife branch and Adeje council have planned a series of ‘Healthy Routes’, with walks in different parts of the borough, observing all the current health restrictions.
On April 22nd there is an online talk on PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), a medicine people at risk of HIV take daily to prevent the spread of the virus.
The workshop will detail the importance of the drug, who should take it and where it is available in Tenerife. And in April 218th the programme ends with a healthy cookery class online.