Around the world, the suitable to well being of tens of millions is more and more coming beneath risk.

Diseases and disasters loom giant as causes of loss of life and incapacity.

Conflicts are devastating lives, inflicting loss of life, ache, starvation and psychological misery.

The burning of fossil fuels is concurrently driving the local weather disaster and taking away our proper to breathe clear air, with indoor and outside air air pollution claiming a life each 5 seconds.

The WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has discovered that a minimum of 140 international locations acknowledge well being as a human proper of their structure. Yet international locations should not passing and placing into observe legal guidelines to make sure their populations are entitled to entry well being providers. This underpins the truth that a minimum of 4.5 billion individuals — greater than half of the world’s inhabitants — weren’t totally coated by important well being providers in 2021.

To deal with some of these challenges, the theme for World Health Day 2024 is ‘My well being, my proper’.

This 12 months’s theme was chosen to champion the suitable of everybody, in every single place to have entry to high quality well being providers, training, and data, in addition to secure consuming water, clear air, good diet, high quality housing, respectable working and environmental circumstances, and freedom from discrimination.