World Health Day
- POSTED ON: 6 Apr, 2018
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- POSTED BY: Young World Club
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April 7 is World Health Day. This year is the World Health Organisation’s 70th year, and the theme of the Day is “Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere”.
This means that everyone should have access to quality health services everywhere without facing financial hardship. Access to essential quality care and financial protection not only enhances people’s health and life expectancy, it also protects countries from epidemics, reduces poverty and the risk of hunger, creates jobs, drives economic growth and enhances gender equality.
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Here are some facts and figures to think about:
- At least half of the world’s people is currently unable to obtain essential health services.
- Almost 100 million people are being pushed into extreme poverty, forced to survive on just $1.90 or less a day, because they have to pay for health services out of their own pockets.
- Over 800 million people (almost 12 percent of the world’s population) spend at least 10 percent of their household budgets on health expenses for themselves, a sick child or other family member. They incur so-called “catastrophic expenditures”.
- Incurring catastrophic expenses for health care is a global problem. In richer countries in Europe, Latin America and parts of Asia, which have achieved high levels of access to health services, increasing numbers of people are spending at least 10 percent of their household budgets on out-of-pocket health expenses.
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Source: who.int