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Key stages in people’s lives have particular relevance for their health.

Ensuring that children have the best start in life – through good nutrition, immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases and environments that enable them to be safe and physically active – establishes a solid base for good health and contributes to healthy behaviour for years to come.

As young people approach adulthood and their sexually active years, they confront new choices and dangers to their health. These dangers include alcohol consumption, illicit drug and tobacco use, risky sexual behaviour, violence and injuries (including those from road traffic accidents).

Pregnancy can be a particularly vulnerable time in a woman’s life, when access to high quality, skilled health care, is of the utmost importance.

A healthy lifestyle helps people maintain good health into old age.

Through its work in countries, engaging partners and research, WHO/Europe promotes healthy lifestyles and disease prevention, and works to ensure that people have access to the most appropriate health care throughout their lives.