World Health Day 2024: Expectation of health revolution amid increasing diseases

Every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates World Health Day on 7 April with the hope of improved health of the people of the world. Its mission is to raise awareness about a specific health issue affecting people around the world. It is a day of collective action, education and focus on promoting the importance of health for all. The theme of 2024 is ‘My Health, My Right’. According to WHO, health is not just about eating healthy, it is also about how the world can come together to help everyone live longer and healthier lives. Along with making new discoveries in the field of medicine, new medicines and new vaccines, increasing awareness among people about health issues is also the priority of the World Health Organization. In 1948, the world’s nations came together to found WHO to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable, so everyone everywhere can stay healthy and receive the highest levels of care. Two years later, in 1950, the first World Health Day was celebrated on 7 April. This year’s theme reflects the philosophy that health is a basic human right and everyone should have access to health services when and where they need it, without any financial difficulties.

Health is one of the major concerns of the world. The health situation in all countries is worrying and worrying. Due to scientific progress, industrial revolution, increasing population, urbanization and stressful environment of modern life, there has been a huge increase in physical and mental diseases. This is not a matter of concern for any one nation, but for the entire world. Ill health is a widespread problem of the present era. There is a plague of diseases all around. New medical methods are failing to prevent the ever increasing diseases. As science creates anti-disease medicines, diseases are appearing in new forms, new names and new environments. More than half the world’s population, more than 4.5 billion people, did not have adequate access to essential health services in 2021. Two billion people remain deprived of health facilities because they do not have money to spend on the treatment of various diseases. Around 930 million people around the world have to spend 10 percent or more of their household budget on health, making their financial condition worse.

World Health Day highlights the right to health as a fundamental human right regardless of location, social and economic status or background. It advocates for a world where everyone has equal access to quality health care, not just the privileged few. The day is not just about raising awareness; It is a catalyst of change, it is the trumpet of health revolution. It motivates individuals to adopt healthy habits, motivates governments to invest in health care infrastructure and resources, and motivates health care institutions to continuously improve the services they provide. Is. This day transcends borders and cultural divisions. It unites people around the world in a common goal, a world where everyone can thrive in good health. It emphasizes the importance of effective, safe, affordable and culturally appropriate health services.

World Health Day is one of the 11 official global health campaigns marked by WHO along with World Tuberculosis Day, World Immunization Week, World Malaria Day, World No Tobacco Day, World AIDS Day, World Blood Donor Day, World Chagas Disease Day, World Patient Day Is. This year WHO is also celebrating its 75th anniversary, so to mark the day, WHO will also look at the public health successes that have improved the quality of life over the last seven and a half decades. World Health Day highlights the right to health as a fundamental human right regardless of location, socioeconomic status or background. It advocates for a world where everyone has equal access to quality health care, not just the privileged few. The day provides a platform to acknowledge advances in health care and disease prevention. Highlighting successful strategies and innovations can inspire further successes and commitment to improving global health outcomes.

India’s health conditions are improving under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but this improvement is expected to accelerate. Data released by WHO has highlighted another growing health crisis in India and that is obesity and anemia. According to the report, now twice the number of women as men are being affected by anemia. If we look at the data on obesity, obesity among women has increased from 21 percent in 2015-16 to 24 percent in 2019-20. Apart from these, it has been said in the report that there is an increase in obesity among children in major states of India including Gujarat and Maharashtra. With the world’s largest population, India is home to more than 1.4 billion people. At an average of two children per woman, the country’s birth rate was 18.6 per thousand inhabitants in 2018. Average life expectancy has seen a steady increase since the 1920s and was approximately 69 years in 2019. However, this was still lower than the global average of about 72 years. Infant mortality rates have also declined steadily over the years due to the government’s increased focus on providing access to specialized newborn care units, routine immunization and basic mother and child care facilities. Additionally, the country has seen a relative decline in female feticide and sex-selective abortion since government regulations made such procedures illegal.

To control diseases, yoga and meditation, balanced diet and moderate lifestyle should also be included in events like World Health Day. There are two important components of our body – heart and brain. That means heart and brain. Both of these operate and regulate the entire body system. The vitality, activity, capacity and health of every organ of the body depends on the health of these grains. All the mental and physical diseases or deformities that arise are testimony to the fact that someone has tried to ‘overtake’ by ignoring the instructions of the ‘traffic police’ standing at the ‘road crossing’. The increasing number of mental illnesses and heart diseases all over the world is the result of this internal chaos. Other incurable diseases are also caused by unbalanced lifestyle. Therefore, for good health, it is absolutely essential to be aware of mental health and emotional health and events like World Health Day should be used as a medium for such awareness.

Lalit Garg

Writer, Journalist, Columnist