Social Security Scotland: Help for pregnant women and children highlighted on World Health Day

Social Security Scotland: Help for pregnant women and children highlighted on World Health Day

Social Security Scotland is putting the spotlight on its Best Start Foods and Best Start Grant Pregnancy and Baby Payment on World Health Day, 7 April 2025. This year World Health Day is being marked through a campaign called, ‘Healthy beginnings and hopeful futures’, which aims to protect mums and babies from preventable deaths and promote women’s longer-term health and wellbeing. Ensuring that pregnant women and those who have a young baby tak…

BAN Toxics Highlights the Protection of Women and Children from Toxic Chemicals and Waste on World Health Day

BAN Toxics joins the global community in celebrating World Health Day, supporting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) campaign, ‘Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,’ which calls on governments and the health sector to intensify efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths and to prioritize the long-term health and well-being of women. According to the WHO’s latest estimates, nearly 300,000 women die each year from pregnancy- or chil…