All over the world, the precise to well being of hundreds of thousands of individuals is more and more threatened.
Ailments and disasters occupy an vital place among the many causes of dying and incapacity.
Conflicts devastate lives and trigger dying, ache, starvation and psychological misery.
The burning of fossil fuels is concurrently driving the local weather disaster and taking away our proper to breathe clear air, and indoor and out of doors air air pollution claims one life each 5 seconds.
The WHO Council on Well being Economics for All has discovered that a minimum of 140 nations acknowledge well being as a human proper of their structure. Nonetheless, nations are usually not passing or implementing legal guidelines that make sure that their populations have the precise to entry well being providers. This helps the truth that a minimum of four.5 billion folks (greater than half of the world's inhabitants) weren’t absolutely coated by important well being providers in 2021.
To deal with these kind of challenges, the theme of World Well being Day 2024 is 'My well being, my proper'.
This 12 months's theme was chosen to defend the precise of everybody, all over the place, to have entry to high quality well being providers, training and data, in addition to clear water, clear air, good diet, high quality housing, environmental situations and first rate work, and freedom. of discrimination.
Study extra
Human rights well being subject
The Program for Gender Equality, Human Rights and Well being Fairness
Human Rights Day 2023 Poster: Well being is a human proper