World Health Day

The Observance of the   World Health Day 2022  on 7 April will focus our attention on urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet health y and foster a movement to create societies focused on well-being.  FORUM: World Health Day 2022 - Our Plane; Our Health. Are we able to reimagine a world where clean air, water and food are available to all? Where economies are focused on health and well-being? Where cities are liveable and people have control over their health and the health of the planet?   Follow the conversation  #WorldHealthDay ,  #OurPlanetOurHealth ,  #HeatlhierTomorrow FACTS & FIGURES Burning fossil fuels like oil; coal and natural gas causes air pollution.

Pollution and plastics are found at the bottom of our deepest oceans, the highest mountains, and have made their way into our food chain.

  More than 13 million deaths around the world each year are due to avoidable environmental causes. This includes the climate crisis which is the single biggest health threat facing humanity. The climate crisis is also a health crisis. The World Health Organization (WHO)

  Wildfires can cause death and injury from suffocation. Wildfires can cause trauma impacts on mental health.

 Extreme weather events, land degradation and water scarcity are displacing people and affecting their health.  Climate change is a threat to human health driving diseases like cancer, asthma, heart diseases and dengue.

 Nitrogen Dioxyde pollution can ahhravate respiratory diseases particularly ashma.

Needlestick injuries from discarded syringes can cause Hepatistis B, C and Infections diseases. Emissions from burning of health care can increase cancers.

  Floods can cause: Disruption of health services Shortages of Safe Water

 Climate change is making floods and extreme rainfalmm more likely and more dangerous.

  Exposure to extreme heat causes: Headaches; Confusion, Tiredness, Vomiting.

  Above 40 degrees, heat strokes might happen, causing organ failure and even death.

 2 Billion people do not have access to safe drinking water                                  

 829.000 People die from diarrhoeal disease every year caused by polluted water and poor sanitation.                                        

  3.6 Million people around the world don't have safe toilets.

Growing tobacco harms the planet. Tobacco kills more than 8 million people every year and is highly addictive.