[英语]World Health Day 7 April 2009 [复制链接]

World Health Day 2009

Save lives. Make hospitals safe in emergencies



World Health Day 2009 focuses on the safety of health facilities and the readiness of health workers who treat those affected by emergencies. Health centres and staff are critical lifelines for vulnerable people in disasters - treating injuries, preventing illnesses and caring for people's health needs.

They are cornerstones for primary health care in communities – meeting everyday needs, such as safe childbirth services, immunizations and chronic disease care that must continue in emergencies. Often, already fragile health systems are unable to keep functioning through a disaster, with immediate and future public health consequences.

This year, WHO and international partners are underscoring the importance of investing in health infrastructure that can withstand hazards and serve people in immediate need. They are also urging health facilities to implement systems to respond to internal emergencies, such as fires, and ensure the continuity of care.

In 2008, World Health Day focused on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change. WHO selected this theme in recognition that climate change is posing ever growing threats to global public health security.

2007: international health security

WHO/Chris Black

The theme for World Health Day 2007 was international health security. The aim was to urge governments, organizations and businesses to "invest in health, build a safer future".

Emerging diseases, such as SARS and avian influenza, humanitarian emergencies, health risks from effects of climate change or environmental degradation, and other acute health threats can all be defined as public health emergencies. International health security is the first line of defence against health shocks that can devastate people, societies and economies worldwide.

A high-level global debate took place in Singapore on 2 April 2007, in advance of the Day, to raise the profile of international health security. The wide-ranging debate challenged panellists to confront the public health, business and diplomatic obstacles to improved cross-border cooperation, and urged them to find a way forward to more effective collaboration.

In 2006, World Health Day was devoted to the health workforce crisis. Health workers - the people who provide health care to those who need it - are at the heart of health systems. But around the world, there is a chronic shortage of health workers as a result of decades of underinvestment in their education, training, salaries, working environment and management. The results are evident: clinics with no health workers and hospitals that cannot recruit or keep key staff. This is a crisis from which no country is entirely immune.

Hundreds of organizations hosted events to draw attention to the global health workforce crisis and to celebrate the dignity and value of working for health.