Every law counts.

Every ministry can and should legislate to realise the right to health across the full range of sectors:

• Finance: tax tobacco, sugar, and alcohol.
• Agriculture: eliminate trans fats; reduce amount of antimicrobials in the agri-food system by 30-50% by 2030.
• Environment: stop fossil fuel subsidies and subsidize or exempt tax of clean energy and fuels such as solar-, hydro- and wind-based electricity.
• Justice: prohibit all forms of discrimination.
• Transport: build up cycling infrastructure, support pedestrianization.
• Labour: Ensure decent work, worker rights and protections, and create fair, equal and gender-responsive working conditions for health and care workers.
• Social affairs / social development: Ensure access to social protection (e.g. health-care protection, pensions, unemployment benefits) to reduce households’ vulnerability to poverty and counteract the negative impacts of unexpected life events on income, wealth or health.

“My health, my right.“ World health Day 2024.