World Health Day is April 7th.
World Health Day is the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization in 1948. Since 1950, World Health Day has been celebrated on April 7th every year, aiming at arousing people all over the world's attention to health and hygiene work, improving people's quality and understanding in the field of health, and emphasizing the importance of health to labor creation and happy life. Choose a theme for World Health Day every year to highlight the main areas of concern of WHO.
Introduction to World Health Day:
April 7th every year is World Health Day, which is the anniversary of the establishment of 1948 World Health Organization. Every year, World Health Day has a theme that emphasizes a key area of concern to WHO.
World Health Day is a global movement that invites global leaders and the public in all countries to pay attention to health challenges with global impact.
The theme of this year's World Health Day is aging and health, and the slogan is "Health is good for longevity". It focuses on how a healthy body can help the elderly live a complete and beneficial life and become the wealth of the family and society.
According to WHO data, in the next five years, the number of elderly people aged 65 and over in the world will exceed the number of children under 5 for the first time. By 2050, the global population over the age of 60 will reach 2 billion, exceeding1the total number of children under the age of 4, and about 80% of the elderly live in low-and middle-income countries.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan pointed out: "The risk of death and disability caused by non-communicable diseases in low-and middle-income countries is four times that of high-income countries." WHO calls on countries to take measures to prevent non-communicable diseases, including heart disease, cancer and diabetes, and provide local medical services.
WHO also pointed out that the deterioration of health status is not the only problem in the process of population aging, and the whole society should also act together to break the discrimination and prejudice against the elderly.
The origin of World Health Day
1946 On July 22nd, the United Nations Economic and Social Council held the International Health Assembly in new york. Representatives from more than 60 countries signed the World Health Organization, which came into effect on April 7th. 1948. To commemorate the adoption day of the organization * * *, the World Health Organization was formally established at the first United Nations World Health Assembly held in Geneva on June 1948, and decided to designate July 22nd as "World Health Day" every year to encourage countries to hold various commemorative activities. The following year, the Second World Health Assembly decided from 1950 that April 7th would be the global "World Health Day". Considering that schools in most countries have summer holidays in July every year, they cannot participate in this celebration.
The World Health Organization estimates that the number of deaths caused by the lack of transportation associations worldwide exceeds 2 million each year. World Health Day conducted population health surveys around the world. The result coincides with mine. About 60% to 85% adults don't take proper exercise to keep their health. Take Hong Kong as an example. More than half of adults don't often take part in sports. In view of this, the World Health Organization has set this year's theme as "Exercise is good for health", emphasizing the benefits and importance of exercise to individuals and society, and calling on the masses to do more exercise. Research shows that exercising for half an hour or more every day can promote health and prevent diseases. [4] April 7th is World Health Day. The World Health Organization has designated the theme of World Health Day in 2008 as "responding to climate change and protecting human health", aiming at calling on countries to pay attention to the threat of climate change to global health. On April 7th, 1948, the United Nations World Health Organization * * * came into effect.
Since 1950, the United Nations has decided to designate April 7th every year as World Health Day, and set up a theme related to the field of public health for the annual Health Day, aiming at raising the world's awareness of health work and promoting its development. With global warming, the field of health has gradually become one of the most influential departments in the world. The health hazards caused by climate change are diverse and global. In her speech on World Health Day in 2008, Director-General Chen Fengfuzhen of the World Health Organization pointed out that heat waves, storms, floods and droughts claimed thousands of lives every year. Diseases that are obviously affected by climate, such as diarrhea, malaria and malnutrition, have caused more than 3 million deaths worldwide. Chen Fengfuzhen believes that even these figures can not fully reflect the impact of climate change on world food crops and sanitary water supply, nor can they fully reflect its indirect serious consequences on human health.
The World Health Organization pointed out that although the impact of climate change on human health will be affected by many conditions, such as regional differences, development level, poverty and education level, public health infrastructure and so on. Developing countries will face great difficulties in coping with climate change. If we can't cope with climate change and its impact on health, it will be difficult for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Human activities are one of the causes of climate change, and human activities can also solve problems. Although the impact of climate change on health may be difficult to reverse in a few years or decades, many negative effects can be controlled and avoided. Health departments and relevant parties in various countries have taken relevant measures to minimize the impact of climate change on human health. For example, control disease vectors, reduce traffic pollution, effectively use land and manage water resources. On the occasion of World Health Day in 2008, the World Health Organization called on countries to establish interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral partnerships, jointly formulate mitigation measures, stabilize climate change, and minimize the impact of climate change on health.
Development of World Health Day
1946 On July 22nd, the United Nations Economic and Social Council held the International Health Assembly in new york. Representatives from more than 60 countries signed the World Health Organization, which came into effect on April 7th. 1948. To commemorate the adoption day of the organization * * *, the World Health Organization was formally established at the first United Nations World Health Assembly held in Geneva on June 1948, and decided to designate July 22nd as "World Health Day" every year to encourage countries to hold various commemorative activities.
The following year, the Second World Health Assembly decided from 1950 that April 7th would be the global "World Health Day". Considering that schools in most countries have summer holidays in July every year, they cannot participate in this celebration. The purpose of setting up World Health Day is to arouse the attention of all countries in the world to health problems, mobilize people all over the world to care about and improve the current health situation and improve the health level of human beings. During World Health Day, all member countries of the World Health Organization, including China, held celebrations to publicize and popularize health knowledge and improve people's health. From 65438 to 0948, the first World Health Assembly called for the establishment of "World Health Day" to commemorate the birth of the World Health Organization. Since 1950, April 7th has been World Health Day every year. Choose a theme for World Health Day every year to highlight the main areas of concern of WHO. World Health Day is an opportunity for the world to pay attention to major public health issues affecting the international community. World Health Day launched a long-term publicity plan, which lasted until after April 7.