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World Health Day, held on the 7th April each year, is the term for an annual day dedicated to promoting the benefits of good health and wellbeing worldwide.
As a worldwide event, World Health Day has many wide-reaching aims and priorities. According to the World Health Organisation website, they include:
- ‘To improve understanding of universal health coverage and the importance of primary health care as its foundation’.
- ‘To spur action from individuals, policy-makers and health-care workers to make universal health care a reality for everyone’.
- ‘Everyone should have the information and services they need to take care of their own health and the health of their families’.
- ‘Skilled health workers providing quality, people-centred care; and policy-makers committed to investing in primary health care’.
