World Health Day: Info, Theme, Objective, Celebration, Photos

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The World Health Day is celebrated by the people all across the world every year on 7th of April under the leadership of World Health Organization to draw the mass people attention towards the importance of global health. World Health Assembly was held first time in the year 1948 in Geneva (City in Switzerland) by the WHO where it was decided to celebrate the World Health Day annually on 7th of April. It was first celebrated worldwide in the year 1950 as the World Health Day. Varieties of events related to the particular theme are organized on the international and national level by the WHO.

World Health Day: 7 April

It is an annual event being celebrated for years to raise the common public awareness towards the health issues and concerns. A particular theme is chosen to run the celebration and take care of the health for whole year. Global Polio Eradication was also one of the special themes of the year 1995 of world health day. From then, most of the countries have become free of this fatal disease whereas in other parts of the world its awareness level has increased.

World Health Day targets all the health issues on global basis for which several programs are organized yearly by the WHO and other related health organizations at various places like schools, colleges and other crowd places. It is celebrated to remember the establishment of the World health Organization as well as draw the attention of people towards the major health issues in the world. WHO is a vast health organization working under UN for addressing the health issues on a global basis. Since its establishment it has addressed serious health issues including chickenpox, polio, smallpox, Tuberculosis (TB), leprosy and etc. from various developing countries. It has played a significant role aiming to make the world a healthy world. It has all the statistics about global health reports.

World Health Day: Theme

1950: Know your Health Services
1951: Health for your Child and World’s Children
1952: Healthy surroundings make Healthy people
1953: Health is Wealth
1954: The Nurse: Pioneer of Health
1955: Clean water means better Health
1956: Destroy disease carrying Insects
1957: Food for All
1958: Ten years of Health progress
1959: Mental illness and Mental Health in the World of today
1960: Malaria eradication – A world challenge
1961: Accidents and their prevention
1962: Preserve sight- prevent Blindness
1963: Hunger= Disease of millions
1964: No Truce for Tuberculosis
1965: Smallpox – constant alert
1966: Man and his Cities
1967: Partners in Health
1968: Health in the World of Tomorrow
1969: Health, Labor and Productivity
1970: Early detection of Cancer saves Life
1971: A full life despite Diabetes
1972: Your Heart is your Health
1973: Health begins at Home
1974: Better food for a healthier World
1975: Smallpox: Point of no return
1976: Foresight Prevents Blindness
1977: Immunize and protects your Child
1978: Down with High Blood pressure
1979: A healthy Child: A sure future
1980: Smoking or Health: Choice is yours
1981: Health for all by year 2000 AD
1982: Add life to years
1983: Health for all by year 2000 AD: Countdown has begun
1984: Children’s Health: Tomorrow’s Wealth
1985: Healthy Youth – Our best Resource
1986: Healthy living: Everyone a winner
1987: Immunization: A chance for every Child
1988: Health for All: All for Health
1989: Let’s talk Health
1990: Our Planet our Earth: Think Globally Act Locally
1991: Should Disaster Strike, be prepared
1992: Heart beat: A rhythm of Health
1993: Handle life with care: Prevent violence and Negligence
1994: Oral Health for a Healthy Life
1995: Global Polio Eradication
1996: Healthy Cities for better life
1997: Emerging infectious diseases
1998: Safe motherhood
1999: Active aging makes the difference
2000: Safe Blood starts with me
2001: Mental Health: stop exclusion, dare to care
2002: Move for health
2003: Shape the future of life: healthy environments for children
2004: Road safety
2005: Make every mother and child count
2006: Working together for health
2007: International health security
2008: Protecting health from the adverse effects of climate change
2009: Save lives, make hospitals safe in emergencies
2010: Urbanization and health: make cities healthier
2011: Anti-microbial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow
2012: Good health adds life to years
2013: Healthy heart beat, Healthy blood pressure
2014: Vector-borne diseases
2015: Food safety (with 5 keys; Key 1: Keep clean, Key 2: Separate raw and cooked food, Key 3: Cook food thoroughly, Key 4: Keep food at safe temperatures, Key 5: Use safe water and raw materials).
2016: Diabetes:Scale up prevention, strengthen care, and enhance surveillance
2017: Depression: Let’s talk
2018: Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere
2019: Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere
2020: Support nurses and midwives
2021: It’s time to build a fairer, healthier world for everyone, everywhere.
2022: Our planet, our health
2023: Health for All
2024: My Health, My Right

How is World Health Day celebrated?

World Health Day is celebrated worldwide by the government, non-government, NGOs including various health organizations at many places by organizing programmes relating to the public health issues and awareness. Participated organizations highlight their activities and supports through the media reports by means of press releases, news and etc. Health authorities from different country take part in the celebration with their pledges in order to support on the health issues worldwide.

Varieties of activities are done in the conference of health workers to encourage people to maintain their health in the presence of media coverage. Debates on the related topics, art exhibitions, essay writing, competitions and award ceremony are organized to fulfill the aim of world health day.

Why do we celebrate World Health Day?

World Health Day celebration focuses on increasing the life expectancy by adding good health to the lives of people and promoting healthier living habits. Youths of the new era are also targeted by this event to prevent and make them healthy to make the world healthy and free from AIDS and HIV.

Disease spreading vectors like mosquitoes (malaria, dengue fever, filaria, chikungunya, yellow fever and etc), ticks, bugs, sand flies, snails and etc are also spotlighted by the WHO to make the world free from a wide range of diseases caused by parasites and pathogens. It provides better prevention and cure from the vector-borne diseases spread by vectors and travelers from one country to other. WHO supports various health authorities on global basis to make their own efforts for the public health problems to enhance better life without any diseases.

Some of the objectives of why it is being celebrated yearly are listed below:

To increase the public awareness of various causes and prevention of high blood pressure.
To provide detail knowledge of getting prevented from various diseases and their complications.
To encourage most vulnerable group of people to frequently check their blood pressure and follow medications from the professionals.
To promote self care among people.
To motivate the worldwide health authorities to make their own efforts in creating the healthy environments in their country.
To protect families living in the disease vulnerable areas.
To teach travelers and send them a messages about how to get protected from the vector-borne diseases while travelling.