For this year’s campaign and throughout the year, WHO will be engaging policy-makers and bringing people together to build a fairer, healthier world in line with WHO’s constitutional principle that “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition.”
As part of the overall drive to achieve health for all, WHO will work to position health equity high on the global agenda and solicit political will, galvanize support from governments and donors, and support countries to identify priorities, by highlighting key barriers in equitable access to health services, promoting actions to work around those barriers and providing recommendations and tools to support multisectoral actions, in order to achieve equitable health outcomes.
The World Health Day campaign aims to:
raise awareness of health inequity and encourage public engagement in advocacy efforts;
highlight the negative impacts of inequities on health and well-being, and social and economic development, and the advantages of improving health for all through better and more equitable health services;
engage government policy-makers in building capacity to address health equity, including in the current COVID-19 context and in building back better through advocacy and knowledge exchange;
encourage partnerships to accelerate progress to achieve greater health equity as part of overall efforts to build back better involving government, WHO and other agencies, civil society organizations, academia, professional associations, youth groups, the media and other stakeholders.
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