World Health Day 2022

One’s Health is the Greatest Wealth

We’ve all heard of a phrase before which says that Health is our absolute wealth. But do we care about our health? Do we really prioritize our health concerns? In today’s fast pacing world health is our least important priority. But whenever we encounter with any disease, we realize how important it is to require care for our health.

Every year in 7^thof April WHO (World Health Organization) conducts World Health Day to celebrate their establishment and to remind us of the significance of our health.

The Theme of World Health Day 2022

Each year on this day a theme is to choose to highlight an important part to focus on. The theme of this year’s World Health Day is “Our planet, Our health” It’s to make sure that the problems we face because of the polluted environment shouldn’t be neglected. WHO reports that every year approximately 1 million people die due to environmental pollutions. Also, many people suffer from the various disease that affects their health. With this theme WHO wants us to know that our environment has a direct effect on our health. It is very important for us to not ignore any opportunity to save our planet in order for our well-being.

Importance of World Health Day

World Health Day isn’t about only healthy eating and healthy living, the main focus is health awareness. Many health organizations from different countries along with many NGOs celebrate this day to spread awareness among people. The primary goal of WHO on this day is to educate people about the significance of good health. Because a good health is a heaven for our soul and an ill health is a prison. Hence, the 2022 world health day is about the health of our planet which is connected to the health of all living creatures. And we need to look forward to the global crisis which tends to harm our planet.

The Global Health Condition of Our Planet

13 people die every minute due to lung cancer. Burning fuel is the reason for air pollution and over 90% of the population breathes unhealthy air which directly affects our health.
Global warming resulting increasing temperature causes global climate change. All the nations are attempting to resolve this global problem which is caused by us. Temperature change is one of the major environmental problems. It can cause many deadly diseases, floods, and might impact our psychological state similarly.
Deaths from polluted water are 829,000 in every year. Also, there are many people from various countries who don’t have access to clean drinking water.
Another major problem for our planet is tobacco. Millions of trees are cut down every year to manufacture cigarettes. It causes carcinoma and plenty of other diseases in our body. Also, almost 767,000 kilograms of cigarette buds were thrown away here and there, resulting water and land pollution.

Efforts to Improve The Health of Our Planet?

Reduce: Protecting our planet starts with us. We need to reduce using all the materials which are harmful for our environment. Plastic is one of them. We can’t totally stop the use of plastic in our day-to-day life. Instead, we can use alternatives that are biodegradable.
Reuse: We can reuse different items which can decrease excessive waste. Instead of throwing out our old items we can reuse them or donate them.
Recycle: Everyone seems to be responsive to the actual fact that how impactful recycling may be. We need to make it a habit and spread more awareness about recycling to save our planet.

Final Words

All the above things which we have mentioned are to give you an idea of World Health Day. Whatever we do to our planet, it will impact our health. So, in order to live a healthy lifestyle, we must take care of our planet. No matter how much we have knowledge for this day, if we cannot start saving our planet we cannot save ourselves.