April
07
World Health
Day
Day of Maternity and Beauty (Armenia)
Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda)
Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume Day (Tanzania)
Women's Day (Mozambique)
World
Health Day 2016 : Beat Diabetes
The theme for World Health Day 2016 will be
diabetes, a noncommunicable disease (NCD) directly impacting
millions of people of globally, mostly in low- and middle-income
countries.
Diabetes
is a chronic, metabolic disease characterized by elevated levels
of blood glucose which may over time lead to serious damage
to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves. The
prevalence of diabetes has been steadily increasing in the past
few decades, in particular in low- and middle-income countries.
Knowledge exists to reverse this trend through targeted prevention
and appropriate care.
Not just
a health issue
But diabetes
– the main forms of which are type 1 and type 2 diabetes – is
not just a health issue.
Diabetes
and its complications bring about substantial economic loss
to people with diabetes and their families, and to health systems
and national economies through direct medical costs and loss
of work and wages.
Working
to prevent, detect and treat diabetes is also critical to development.
Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Governments
have set an ambitious target to reduce premature mortality from
NCDs – including diabetes – by one third; achieve universal
health coverage; and provide access to affordable essential
medicines – all by 2030.
WHO's
work on diabetes
Fact
sheet on diabetes
10
facts about diabetes
What
are the risks of diabetes in children?
April
7 : World Health Day
2015:
How safe is your food?
2014:
Small bite, big threat
2013:
Control your blood pressure
2012 : Good
health adds life to years
2011 : Antimicrobial resistance and its global spread
Antimicrobial resistance: no action today no cure tomorrow
We live in an era of medical breakthroughs with new wonder drugs
available to treat conditions that a few decades ago, or even
a few years ago in the case of HIV/AIDS, would have proved fatal.
For World Health Day 2011, WHO will launch a worldwide campaign
to safeguard these medicines for future generations. Antimicrobial
resistance and its global spread threaten the continued effectiveness
of many medicines used today to treat the sick, while at the
same time it risks jeopardizing important advances being made
against major infectious killers
World
Health Day 2010
Urbanization and health
World Health Day 2010 focused on urbanization and health. With
the campaign "1000 cities - 1000 lives", events were
organized worldwide calling on cities to open up streets for
health activities. Stories of urban health champions were gathered
to illustrate what people are doing to improve health in their
cities.
World Health
Day 2009
Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies
World Health Day 2009 focuses on the resilience and safety of
health facilities and the health workers who treat those affected
by emergencies. Events around the world will highlight successes,
advocate for safe facility design and construction, and build
momentum for widespread emergency preparedness.
World
Health Day 2008
Protecting health from climate change
In 2008, World Health Day focused on the need to protect health
from the adverse effects of climate change. The health impacts
of climate change are already evident in different ways. These
impacts will be disproportionately greater in vulnerable populations,
which include the very young, elderly, medically infirm, poor
and isolated populations.
World
Health Day 2007
International health security
The theme for World Health Day 2007 was international health
security, which is the first line of defence against public
health emergencies that can devastate people, societies and
economies worldwide. The aim was to urge governments, organizations
and businesses to "invest in health, build a safer future".
World
Health Day 2006
Working together for health
In 2006, World Health Day was devoted to the health workforce
crisis. Around the world, there is a chronic shortage of health
workers as a result of decades of underinvestment in their education,
training, salaries, working environment and management. This
is a crisis from which no country is entirely immune.
2005: make
every mother and child count
2004: road safety
2003: shape the future of life
2002: move for health
2001: mental health: stop exclusion, dare to care
Day
of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide
Events
1788 – American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory
arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing
Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of
the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening
the westward expansion of the new country.
1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction
match that he had invented the previous year.
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1927 – First distance public television broadcast (from Washington,
D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary
Herbert Hoover).
1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United
Nations.
1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving
twenty monks dead.
1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino
theory" speech during a news conference.
1956 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC
1.
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President
Jimmy Carter.
1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson
perform the first space shuttle spacewalk.
1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali,
Rwanda.
1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United
States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union
over bananas.
2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
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