World Health Day is celebrated on 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of WHO in 1948. Each year a theme is selected for World Health Day that highlights a priority area of public health concern in the world.
❤ The theme for 2013 is high blood pressure.
❤ Goals: Greater awareness, healthy behaviours, improved detection, and enabling environments
The ultimate goal of World Health Day 2013 is to reduce heart attacks and strokes.
Specific objectives of the campaign are:
❤ to raise awareness of the causes and consequences of high blood pressure;
❤ to provide information on how to prevent high blood pressure and related complications;
❤ to encourage adults to check their blood pressure and to follow the advice of health-care professionals;
❤ to encourage self-care to prevent high blood pressure;
❤ to make blood pressure measurement affordable to all; and
❤ to incite national and local authorities to create enabling environments for healthy behaviours.
Courtesy : WHO
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