World Health Day

The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for a worldwide reinvigoration of efforts to ensure access to high quality care for women and babies . Women everywhere need access to health providers who listen to their concerns and meet their needs, so that they can plan their lives and protect their health.  Read the World Health 2025 key messages

The World Health Organization ( WHO)'s 75th anniversary is an opportunity to look back at public  health  successes that have improved quality of life during the last seven decades.  It is also an opportunity to motivate action to tackle the health challenges of today ̶ and tomorrow . Join WHO on a journey to achieve Health For All! 75 years of improving public health.

Focusing on the journey to achieving Health For All,

The right to health is a basic human right. Everyone must have access to the health services they need when and where they need them without financial hardship. The right to health was again recognized as a human right in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Impoverishing expenditure is defined as directout of pocket payments for surgical and anaesthesia care which drivepeople below the extreme poverty threshold.

Almost two billion people face catastrophic or impoverishing health spending, with significant inequalities affecting those in the most vulnerable settings . Progress on impoverishing health spending in 122 countries. We estimate that in 2010, 97 million people were impoverished by out-of-pocket spending on health care at the $1·90 per day poverty line

Universal health coverage (UHC) offers financial protection and access to quality essential services , lifts people out of poverty, promotes the well-being of families and communities , protects against public health crises, and moves us toward #HealthForAll.

To make health for all a reality , we need: individuals and communities who hav e access to high quality health services so that they can take care of their own health and that of their families; skilled health workers providing quality, people-centred care ; and policy-makers committed to investing in universal health coverage .                    

Evidence shows that health systems powered by a primary health care (PHC) approach is the most effective and cost-effective way to bring services for health and well-being closer to people.

  COVID-19 and other health emergencies, overlapping humanitarian and climate crises, economic constraints, and war, have made every country's journey to #HealthForAll more urgent. Now is the time for leaders to take action to meet their universal health coverage commitments and for civil society to hold leaders accountable.

The health goal ( SDG 3 ) is broad: ' Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages '. The SDG declaration emphasizes that to achieve the overall health goal, ' we must achieve universal health coverage (UHC) and access to quality health care . No one must be left behind '.