Health is one of the most fundamental aspects of our lives and in many countries they do not have free health care, and sometimes they do not even pay for it, which implies many complications. Today we tell you when Health Day is and how it is celebrated, just as we will tell you what date it is celebrated in other countries.
When is Health Day 2021
In Argentina, Health Day is celebrated on September 21st a position that commemorates the creation of the Association of Private Hospitals and Sanatoriums of the City of Buenos Aires that took place in 1935. It was a movement to fight for the rights of workers in the health sector that led to the creation from other subsidiaries. Years later, on September 21, 1941, the Obra Social del Personal de la Sanidad Argentina (OSPSA) would be created, which led to the official declaration of the Day of Health.
For the World Health Organization, WHO, is he April 7 World Health Day. It was in 1948 when the World Health Assembly declared that April 7 would officially be World Health Day, since it was on this date that the WHO was founded. And why is this day created? In this case, they describe it as the need to establish a day in which health is the center of everything, a day in which all efforts are put into raising awareness about the deadly diseases that are most on the rise, as well as prevention is worked on by encouraging the development and maintenance of healthier habits.
How is Health Day 2021 celebrated?
We are going to focus on how Health Day is celebrated at the World Health Organization, which is the one for which we have been able to find more information on its website about how the event takes place.
Each year a different theme is chosen to celebrate World Health Day and different activities are developed around it, to publicize, sensitize the population, raise awareness and provoke action.
We share the list of themes from recent years:
- 2021 Build a fairer and healthier world
- 2020 Let’s support nurses and midwives
- 2019 Universal health coverage
- 2018 Universal health coverage for everyone, everywhere
- 2017 Mental health in the workplace
- 2016 Beat Diabetes
- 2015 Food Safety
- 2014 Small Bites: Big Threats
- 2013 Control your blood pressure
- 2012 Good health adds life to years
- 2011 Antimicrobial resistance: if we don’t act today, there will be no cure tomorrow
- 2010 Urbanization and health
- 2009 To save lives: make hospitals safe in emergencies
- 2008 Protecting health against climate change
- 2007 International Health Security
- 2006 Let’s collaborate for health
- 2005 Every mother and child will count!
- 2004 road safety
- 2003 Healthy environments for children
- 2002 For your health, move
- 2001 Mental health: yes to care, no to exclusion
- 2000 Safe blood saves lives
- 1999 Let’s stay active to age well
- 1998 Let’s support healthy motherhood
- 1997 Emerging and re-emerging diseases. global alert global response
- 1996 Healthy cities for a better life
- 1995 Goal 2000: a world without polio
- 1994 Healthy Mouth: Healthy Living
- 1993 Life is Fragile: Reject Violence and Neglect
- 1992 Health at the rhythm of the heart
- 1991 Catastrophes do not warn – Let’s be prepared
- 1990 Our Planet – Our Health
- 1989 Let’s talk about health
- 1988 Health for all – All for health
- 1987 Vaccination: every child’s right
- 1986 Healthy Living, Everybody Wins
- 1985 Healthy youth: our most precious asset
- 1984 Child Health – Tomorrow’s Wealth
- 1983 Health for all – The countdown has begun
- 1982 Revamp old age
- 1981 Health for all in the year 2000
- 1980 Tobacco or Health – Choose
- 1979 Healthy child, future of the world
- 1978 Watch out for high blood pressure
- 1977 Protect your children by vaccinating them
- 1976 Foresight prevents blindness
- 1975 Smallpox: Impossible to Go Back
- 1974 Better food for a healthier world
- 1973 Health begins at home
- 1972 Health beats in the heart
- 1971 Normal Life for Diabetics
- 1970 Discovering cancer early is saving lives
- 1969 Health, work and productivity
- 1968 Health in the world of tomorrow
- 1967 Guardians of Health
- 1966 The Man in the Big City
- 1965 Smallpox: constant threat
- 1964 Fight relentlessly against tuberculosis
- 1963 Hunger – World Disease
- 1962 Preserve Sight; avoid blindness
- 1961 Accidents are not “accidental”
- 1960 The eradication of malaria
- 1959 Mental illness and mental health in today’s world
- 1958 World Health – 10 years of progress
- 1957 Food and health
- 1956 War on disease-carrying insects
- 1955 Pure Water – Basis of Health
- 1954 The Sentinel Health Nurse
- 1953 Health is Wealth
- 1952 Importance of Mental Hygiene
- 1951 Health for your Child and World’s Children
- 1950 Know your Health Services
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