World Health Day 2023: progress and new perspectives in achieving ‘Health for All'

del Carmen Valls Martínez, Maria and Ayanore, Martin and Amu, Hubert and Aremu, Olatunde (2024) World Health Day 2023: progress and new perspectives in achieving ‘Health for All'. Frontiers in Public Health, 12. ISSN 2296-2565

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Abstract

This year, on World Health Day, which takes place on the 7th of April, the World Health Organization (WHO) will observe its 75th anniversary. World Health Day commemorates the date on which the countries of the world joined forces and founded the WHO to promote and uphold the health of the world and its populations so that everyone, everywhere can lead long and healthy lives. The theme for World Health Day 2023 is ‘Health For All’.

‘Health for All’ envisions that people everywhere have good health for a fulfilling life in a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world whilst recognizing and promoting that the right to good health is a basic human right. Currently, 30% of the global population is without access to essential health provisions, and almost 2 billion individuals face economically deprived health circumstances and coverage and therefore do not have access to this right. A shift from economies driven by profit to economies driven by fairness and investment in health, with success being measured by the well-being of people and healthy environments is critical in achieving this goal.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.3389/fpubh.2024.1512006
Dates:	Date Event 28 October 2024 Accepted 18 November 2024 Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords:	health and wellbeing, public health, Health for All, health service utilization, WHO, universal coverage, life expectancy, income inequalities
Subjects:	CAH02 - subjects allied to medicine > CAH02-06 - allied health > CAH02-06-04 - environmental and public health
Divisions:	Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences > College of Life Sciences
Depositing User:	Olatunde Aremu
Date Deposited:	18 Nov 2024 14:00
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 14:00
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15943

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