🌍 Global Health Explorers
GHE LEARNING PATHWAY

Healthy Living

Explore how the choices we make, the environments around us, and the conditions in which we live shape health across the life course.

What helps people—and communities—live healthier lives?

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WHY THIS MATTERS

Healthy living is more than individual choice.

Our health is influenced by what we eat, how active we are, how we sleep, our mental wellbeing, the environments around us, and the opportunities available to us.

These influences can differ between people, communities, and countries. Understanding them helps us become better Global Health Explorers.

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Everyday Health

Discover everyday behaviours and conditions that influence wellbeing.

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Healthy Environments

Explore how air, food, water, places and communities affect health.

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Global Differences

Compare how health patterns differ across communities and countries.

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Evidence

Learn how evidence and data help us understand health and disease.

YOUR HEALTHY LIVING JOURNEY

Explore Healthy Living

Start with the foundations of healthy living, then explore major health conditions and their determinants.

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Foundations of Healthy Living

Explore the everyday foundations of health and wellbeing.

Healthy eating and nutrition
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Healthy Eating

Discover how nutrition influences health, growth and wellbeing.

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Physical activity and healthy living
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Physical Activity

Explore movement, physical activity and lifelong health.

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Sleep & Recovery

Learn why sleep is essential for physical and mental wellbeing.

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Substance Use

Explore risk, prevention, decision-making and healthy choices.

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Noncommunicable Diseases

Discover the world's major long-term health challenges and the factors that influence them.

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CORE GHE PATHWAY

Explore Noncommunicable Diseases

Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases are among the world's major causes of illness and death. Explore what they have in common, how risk factors interact, and how prevention can make a difference.

CVD · Diabetes · Cancer · Respiratory Health Enter the NCD Hub →
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Cardiovascular Disease

Explore heart and blood-vessel health and cardiovascular risk.

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Diabetes

Understand diabetes, its risk factors and prevention.

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Cancer

Explore cancer prevention, risk factors and global patterns.

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Respiratory Health

Discover respiratory diseases and the environments that influence them.

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Osteoporosis

Explore bone health across the life course.

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Air Pollution

Discover how air pollution affects health and communities.

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Mental Health & Wellbeing

Mental wellbeing is an essential part of healthy living.

Mental health and wellbeing
ESSENTIAL HEALTH

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Explore mental health, emotional wellbeing, resilience, relationships and the environments in which young people live and grow.

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THINK LIKE A GLOBAL HEALTH EXPLORER

Don't just learn. Explore.

Every topic is an opportunity to move from personal experience to evidence, from evidence to questions, and from questions to action.

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Explore

What do you already notice around you?

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Learn

What does the evidence tell us?

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Think

What might explain the patterns?

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Connect

How does this relate to people and communities?

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Reflect

What surprised you or changed your thinking?

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Act

What could you do with what you have learned?

💭 YOUR TURN

Think Like a Global Health Explorer

What surprised you?

What did you discover that you did not expect?

What differences do you notice?

Do health experiences differ between people or places?

What questions do you have?

What would you like to investigate further?

FROM LEARNING TO DISCOVERY

Take Healthy Living to the Global Health Big Data Challenge

Ready to explore real-world data? GHBDC gives young people an opportunity to investigate global health questions using evidence and data.

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QUICK KNOWLEDGE CHECK

Are you ready to explore?

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What factors beyond individual choices can influence health?

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Why can the same health problem look different across countries?

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How can data help us understand healthy living?