World Health Day – My health, my right

April 7^th is World Health Day. A global health awareness day under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO). The day provides an opportunity to draw worldwide attention to a subject of major importance to global health each year.

Despite at least 140 countries enshrining health as a human right in their constitutions, the implementation of laws ensuring access to health services remains lacking. Sadly, as of 2021, over half of the world’s population—approximately 4.5 billion people—were not fully covered by essential health services.

This year’s theme was chosen to champion the right of everyone, everywhere to have access to quality health services, education, and information, as well as safe drinking water, clean air, good nutrition, quality housing, decent working and environmental conditions, and freedom from discrimination.

Want to learn more?

• Human rights health topic
• The Program for Gender Equality, Human Rights and Health Equity
• 2023 Human Rights Day poster: Health is a human right

Also check out these MHCC Resources:

A Practical Toolkit to Help Employers Build an Inclusive Workforce can help human resources (HR) professionals and those with HR, wellness and diversity responsibilities increase accessibility and inclusiveness and address the needs of workers living with mental illness.

You can deepen your knowledge with our key research, personal experience stories, prototypes, and real-world examples, including our Dismantling structural stigma in health care guide