United Nations: The World Health Organisation is closely working with centres in India and across the world to support the unique knowledge of yoga with scientific evidence and incorporate it into universal healthcare approaches, a senior official of the agency has said.

"Yoga is used in many settings in which the health challenges are being addressed and it has a very prominent place in the holistic approach through prevention and control of health disorders," Nata Menabde, Executive Director, WHO office to the UN told reporters here yesterday ahead of the International Yoga Day on June 21.