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World Health Day- 2018

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 ‘Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere’

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 create awareness about the importance of global health. The World Health Assembly assembled for the first time in the year 1948 in Geneva, and it was decided to celebrate the World Health Day annually on the 7th of April.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as the theme for this year’s World Health Day and the slogan is ‘Health For All’. The WHO is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.

Universal Health Coverage (UHC)

UHC ensures that all people and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship.

UHC enables everyone to access the services that address the most important causes of disease and death and ensures that the quality of those services is good enough to improve the health of the people who receive them.

The aim of World Health Day 2018 is to inspire, motivate and guide UHC stakeholders to make commitments towards UHC:

  • Inspire—by highlighting policy-makers’ power to transform the health of their nation, framing the challenge as exciting and ambitious, and inviting them to be part of the change.
  • Motivate—by sharing examples of how countries are already progressing towards UHC and encouraging others to find their own path.
  • Guide—by providing tools for structured policy dialogue on how to advance UHC domestically or supporting such efforts in other countries (e.g. expanding service coverage, improving quality of services, reducing out-of-pocket payments).

 

How you can get involved in World Health Day 2018

  • Communicate your needs, opinions and expectations to local policy-makers, politicians, ministers and other people representatives.
  • Make the necessary noise to ensure your community health needs are taken into account and prioritized at the local level, including through social media.
  • Invite civil society organizations to help raise your community needs to your policy-makers.
  • Share your stories as affected communities and patients with the media.
  • Organize activities like discussion fora, policy debates, concerts, marches and interviews to provide people an opportunity to interact with their representatives on the topic of UHC via media and social media.

 

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