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World Health Day
2011
The World Health Day celebrated on 7 April each year, with a different annual theme
that highlights a priority area of concern. This year World Health
Day 2011 focuses on "Ant microbial resistance and its global
spread" , a very important issue to the international
Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) in its capacity as a
leading women's health organisation in 124 countries.
Theme for World Health Day 2011 is "Antimicrobial
resistance" with the slogan "no action today, no
cure tomorrow". This year, World Health Organisation will focus
on the HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria epidemics.
World Health Day 2010
The World Health Day 2010 theme of this year was
" 1000 Cities, 1000 Lives – Urban Health Matters”. This slogan will inspire the towns and the individuals to do work with
multi-agencies having broad range of partners to have the long-lasting effect on
Health. 1000 cities and 1000 lives campaign will watch all the happening events
across the world during one week from 7th to 11th April according to World Health Organization (WHO).
World health Day 2010
.The World Health day is a worldwide opportunity to focus on key public health issues that affect
the international community, and it launches longer-term advocacy programmes.
The World Health Day highlights that women who dwell in urban environments tend to be at
increased risk of violence and some communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
Prevalence of HIV is generally higher in urban areas;
population-based household surveys indicate that prevalence is 1.7 times higher in urban than rural areas.
Urbanisation and Maternal and Child Health
The rapid growth of cities has increased the visibility of unequal access to skilled care at birth and to emergency care for urban women.
Women who live in these slums often do not have access to basic health services. These women and their newborns are particularly disadvantaged because they do not receive appropriate care during pregnancy and childbirth.
Most caesarean sections in developing countries are performed among the urban richer and richest women, while often almost none of the urban poorest women have access to this
life-saving procedure. A similar trend can be seen regarding access to skilled birth attendants.
Only very few of the poorest women have access to a doctor and/or a skilled nurse or midwife during childbirth.
(Source: World Health Organisation)
History
In 1948, the First World Health Assembly called for the creation of a ‘World
Health Day’ to mark the founding of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Since
1950, it has been celebrated on 7 April each year, with a different annual theme that highlights a priority area of concern.
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