World Health Day 2024: "My health, my right"
Around the world, the right to health of millions is increasingly coming under threat.
This year’s theme was chosen to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to health services, education, and information, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination
Conflicts are devastating lives, causing death, pain, hunger and psychological distress.
The burning of fossil fuels is simultaneously driving the climate crisis and taking away our right to breathe clean air, with indoor and outdoor air pollution claiming a life every 5 seconds.
The WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has found that although at least 140 countries recognize health as a human right in their constitution, only 4 countries have mentioned how to finance it.
To address these types of challenges, the theme for World Health Day 2024 is 'My health, my right’.
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Source www.who.int
Dr Krishnakumar R , Consultant Spine and Scoliosis Surgeon is pushing for spine health advocacy, as many people are misguided from taking proper treatment for spine disorders. Many are wrongly advised by their peers and relatives when it comes to spine health. Dr Krishna Kumar runs a monthly radio program titled FM Spine Helpline in All India Radio Kochi, which covers a wide spectrum of spine health issues and also shares interview with patients who had undergone spine surgeries for various conditions such as scoliosis, disc prolapse, spine tumor, spine infection, spine fracture, spine cancer , Spondylolisthesis, Ankylosing Spondylitis etc .
So in this World Health Day let us pledge
'My health, my right’
My Spine Health, My Right
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