07/04/2016
World Health Day :
World Health Day is
celebrated worldwide on April 7 on
Thursday.‘World Health Days’, the WHO’s
Director-General Margaret Chan told
visitors to the launch event in Geneva,
‘provide an opportunity to focus world
attention on a health problem or issue that
deserves special attention.’ Celebrations
over recent years have focussed on
antimicrobial resistance, climate change
and road safety among other issues.World
Health Day is celebrated by people around
the world every year on April 7, under the
leadership of the World Health Organization
to draw attention of people en masse to the
importance of global health. World Health
Assembly was held for the first time in 1948
in Geneva by WHO, which decided to
celebrate World Health Day every year on 7
April. It was first celebrated worldwide in
1950 as World Health Day. Variety of events
related to the particular topic are organized
in the international and national levels by
WHO.
This is an annual event held for years to
raise public awareness of the common
health problems and concerns. A particular
theme is chosen to run the celebration and
health care for the whole year. The global
eradication of polio was also one of the
special themes of 1995 the World Health
Day. Since then, most countries have
become free from this deadly disease, while
in other parts of the world their awareness
has increased.Here just before offering quite
an impressive collection of World Health
Day GIF, wallpapers, images, pictures.Not
everyone receives the event with much
enthusiasm though. Some countries felt that
they had not had sufficient time to prepare
appropriate activities time, while others
wisely noted that holding a celebration so
when most children were in school holidays
seriously weaken its impact. WHO agreed,
and the Second World Health Assembly
decided that from 1950 World Health Day is
celebrated on April 7 to mark the date in
1948 when the constitution of WHO had
officially come into force .
The first World Health Day was held in 1949,
not April 7, but on July 22, the date when 61
nations had signed the Charter of the World
Health Organization in New York in 1946.
documents in the archives of the wHO
suggest that the goal of these first events
was less to raise awareness of specific
health problems, and more, in the words of
the first CEO Brock Chisholm, ‘to promote
public interest and support of the objectives
of the Organization.
