“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Today, we are here with an article on World Health Day 2022. In this article, we will cover the theme, history and significance of World Health Day.
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World Health Day: Overview
Every year the World Health Day is celebrated by the World Health Organization on April 7. The aim of this day is to ensure that everyone, everywhere realizes the right to good health. It is observed annually to create awareness about health and wellbeing. This day is meant to draw the attention of people from all around the world to highlight important health issues. It is also the day to thank all the doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers for their hard work and compassion.
World Health Day 2021 Theme
The theme for World Health Day 2021 is ‘Building a fairer, healthier world’. WHO highlighted how the Covid-19 pandemic has expanded the health inequalities where some people have better access to health services than others. This World Health Day is aimed at eliminating health inequalities to build a fairer and healthier world. The theme is in line with WHO’s commitment “to ensuring that everyone, everywhere, can realize the right to good health”. In 2020, the theme of World Health Day was “Support Nurses and Midwives”.
World Health Day: History
In 1948, the WHO held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7th April as the World Health Day each year. In the year 1950, World Health Day was first celebrated worldwide. World Health Day marks the anniversary of the World Health Organisation which was founded in 1948. The WHO organizes international, regional and local events on the Day related to a particular theme.
World Health Day is one of 11 official global health campaigns marked by WHO. The other ten global health campaigns are:
- World Tuberculosis Day
- World Malaria Day
- World Immunization Day
- World No Tobacco Day
- World Blood Donor Day
- World AIDS Day
- World Chagas Disease Day
- World Hepatitis Day
- World Antimicrobial Awareness Week
- World Patient Safety Day
Significance of World Health Day
- The day is celebrated to highlight important matters including mental health, maternal and child care, climate change, the importance of healthcare workers, and many more.
- This day aims to spread awareness on achieving a better lifestyle and living a disease-free life.
- It primarily focuses on universal health coverage by fixing medical infrastructure.
- It is also an opportunity to draw the attention of the world towards a specific health problem and raise awareness about it.
- It reminds people about the establishment of WHO and spread awareness among people about major health issues in the world.
- Overall, this day is seen as an opportunity to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year.
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