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World Health Day 2023 [ Health For All ] 7 April 2023 #HealthForAll
It is celebrated annually and each year draws attention to a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world.
The date of 7 April marks the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948
In 1948, countries of the world came together and founded WHO to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable - so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health and well-being.
WHO’s 75th anniversary year is an opportunity to look back at public health successes that have improved quality of life during the last seven decades. It is also an opportunity to motivate action to tackle the health challenges of today ̶ and tomorrow.
Join WHO on a journey to achieve Health For All.
Health For All is a goal of the World Health Organization (WHO), that has been popularized since the 1970s and which envisions securing the health and well being of people around the world. It is the basis for the World Health Organization's primary health care strategy to promote health, human dignity, and enhanced quality of life.
Health For All means that health is to be brought within reach of everyone in a given country. And by "health" is meant a personal state of well being, not just the availability of health services - a state of health that enables a person to lead a socially and economically productive life. Health For All implies the removal of the obstacles to health - that is to say, the elimination of malnutrition, ignorance, contaminated drinking water and unhygienic housing - quite as much as it does the solution of purely medical problems such as a lack of doctors, hospital beds, drugs and vaccines.
Health does not exist in isolation. It is influenced by a complex of environmental, social, and economic factors ultimately related to each other. The health of the poor is largely the result of a combination of unemployment (and underemployment), poverty, a low level of education, poor housing, poor sanitation, malnutrition, and lack of the will and initiative to make changes for the better. It would be unrealistic to expect any substantial health improvements in these populations unless these constraints are first removed or alleviated.
Health For All means that health should be regarded as an objective of economic development and not merely as one of the means of attaining it.
Health For All demands, ultimately, literacy for all. Until this becomes reality it demands at least the beginning of an understanding of what health means for every individual.
Health For All depends on continued progress in medical care and public health. The health services must be accessible to all through primary health care, in which basic medical help is available in every village, backed up by referral services to more specialised care. Immunisation must similarly achieve universal coverage.
Health For All is thus a holistic concept calling for efforts in agriculture, industry, education, housing, and communications, just as much as in medicine and public health. Medical care alone cannot bring health to in hovels. Health for such people requires a whole new way of life and fresh opportunities to provide themselves with a higher standard of living.
The adoption of Health For All by government, implies a commitment to promote the advancement of all citizens on a broad front of development and a resolution to encourage the individual citizen to achieve a higher quality of life.
The rate of progress will depend on the political will. The World Health Assembly believes that, given a high degree of determination, Health For All could be attained by the year 2000. That target date is a challenge to all WHO's Member States.
The confrontations with industry are the most difficult to resolve. The pharmaceutical industry, the infant foods industry, the tobacco industry, the medical equipment industry-all affect the health of the people, whether negatively or positively or in both ways.
The basis of the Health For All strategy is primary health care.
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam is a Sanskrit phrase found in Hindu texts such as the Maha Upanishad, which means "The World Is One Family". Vedic tradition mentions "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam" meaning all living beings on the earth are a family.
The theme and the logo for India’s G20 Presidency from December 1, 2022, till November 30, 2023 has a mention of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth-One Family-One Future”. This is nothing but cooperation, coordination, sharing and peace
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