World Health Day, marks the founding of the World Health Organization and is an opportunity to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year. In 2009, World Health Day focuses on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change.
(World Health Day is April 7, 2009)
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- World Health Day 2008: protecting health from climate change
- The theme "protecting health from climate change" puts health at the centre of the global dialogue about climate change. WHO selected this theme in recognition that climate change is posing ever growing threats to global public health security.
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