Topics
World Drug Abuse, Non Communicable Diseases, and Child & Adolescent Health
Committee Type
Topic-based
Committee Size
Medium
Committee Description
The World Health Organization simulates how leaders would tackle global health concerns. It works towards achieving this goal by coordinating international efforts, providing technical assistance, setting health standards and guidelines, conducting research, and monitoring health trends and statistics. The WHO plays an important role in responding to global health crises such as outbreaks of infectious diseases or natural disasters. Delegates will debate and propose resolutions to address public health issues.
Topic Intros
Child & Adolescent Health
Currently, the World Health Organization in coalition with UNICEF have established numerous global wide reaching policies to preserve children and adolescent health with a “survive, thrive, and transform” approach. The first part of the approach–survive aims to end preventable mortality by ensuring access to quality healthcare. Thrive aims to promote safe environments in which children can have a space to grow into healthy adolescence. Transform, the final part of WHO’s approach, aims to drive social change by ensuring no one is left behind in terms of access to affordable care.
Non Communicable Diseases
The World Health Organization has recognized that non communicable diseases are responsible for 75% of non-pandemic related deaths globally, making it an issue that needs to be addressed with urgency. In 2021, 18 million people had died from a non communicable disease, and 82% of those deaths were reported from low and middle income nations. This is as a result of healthcare inequity, underfunded healthcare systems, and a vicious cycle in which poverty continues to limit fair access to prevention and treatment within these nations. In 2025, about 43 million deaths were reported from NCDs with 86% of those also stemming from low and middle income nations.
World Drug Abuse
With a 45% surge observed over the recent decade on world drug abuse, it is one of the most prevalent issues affecting the world today. Drug Abuse is referred to as the hazardous use of psychoactive substances like alcohol and illegal drugs. As technology has advanced, synthetic drugs, which are drugs designed to mimic the effects of other natural psychoactive drugs like heroin or marijuana, are on the rise as much more dangerous with more potency at unregulated levels.
