April 7 - World Health Day - News and Highlights

The World Health Organization (WHO) was created under the proposal of several countries on April 7, 1948, due to the concern of its members to maintain the good health of people worldwide, and also alert everyone about the main problems that can reach the world population.

Health problems have been mainly associated with environmental factors and poverty. According to WHO health should be considered in the physical, social, behavioral and ecological context and health promotion activities should be effective, and benefit from the collaboration of other sectors such as education, nutrition and the environment.Generally speaking medical innovation, progress with basic health care and new social policies have resulted in great increases in life expectancy and the decline of child mortality.
However, poverty rates and some infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria have been a threat to health successes in recent decades.

Angola is a member of WHO and has been conducting health promotion activities, such as dwarf eradication, polio, education campaigns and combating HIV/AIDS and combating diseases such as malaria, sleep disease and tuberculosis.
Sanitation of the environment has also been a concern both of the government and civil society as a way to improve the quality of life of populations.

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