The World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO).
With an aim to spread awareness about health and well being, the first-ever World Health Day was observed in 1948 by the WHO. Since that day, 7th April is observed as the World Health Day every year.
Each year, it is celebrated to draw attention on global health. It has different themes every year and all the themes focus on health and wellness.
The theme of World Health Day 2018 is Universal Health Coverage
This year, the theme is Universal Health Coverage (UHC): everyone, everywhere. It is an opportunity for UHC2030 partners to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage. It will ensure that everyone, everywhere should have access to essential quality of health services. People should not experience any financial hardship while getting quality medical service. As this year is WHO’s 70 th Anniversary year, the organization has appealed the world leaders to live up to the pledges they made and agreed to in the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and for taking concrete actions to progress #HealthForAll.
