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Dr Shirish Khedgikar'World Health Day' is a global health awareness daybeing celebrated every year on April 7 from 1950. The first WorldHealth Assembly organised by the World Health Organization' (WHO)in 1948 decided to celebrate it by declaring a new slogan for thisday, every year. Slogan this year is ‘Our Planet,Our Health.’ It's for global attention for keeping earth healthy and foster a movement to create healthy planet to live on.WHO estimates that more than 12 million deaths around theworld each year are due to avoidable environmental causes. Nowadays, the climate crisis is the single biggest health threat tohuman beings, as well as other animals on earth. Extremeweather events, land degradation and water scarcity are affectingtheir health. In the heating world, mosquitoes spread diseasesfarther and faster. Exposure to extreme heat increases risk ofheadaches, confusion, tiredness and vomiting. Heat above 40 degree Celsiuscauses heat strokes resulting in organ failure and hospitalization.Droughts and wildfires due to climate change are hazardous forhealth. Wildfires cause suffocation. Inhalation of smoke and burninjuries result in deaths. Such trauma affects mental healthand also results in loss of housing and livelihoods.Over 90 percent of people breathe polluted air, resulting fromburning of fossil. According to fuels Paris Agreement documents,control of air pollution will save a million lives per year worldwideby 2050. Transportation produces around 20 percent of globalcarbon emissions. Alternatives like walking and cycling stop itand also offer major health benefits. Greenhouse gas emissionsproduced during production, packing and distribution of food cause 11 Million premature deaths per year due to heart diseases and cancer. Highly processed, unhealthy food items and beverages cause obesity. Plastic found at the bottomof oceans and on the highest mountains has made its way into our foodchain now. Floods due to extreme climate change result indisplacement of public. Shortage of food and safe drinking watercause different infectious diseases.Recent COVID -19 pandemic highlighted inequities in theworld. Inequitable distribution of income, health and power isthreat for health. Social protection, budgetary provisions for poorpeople with good legal and fiscal strategies should be our goals forecological sustainability. Climate-resilient health systems canprotect the population. Financial provisions for it must beadequate and easily available. Providing fresh air, clean water,healthy food and good medicines to citizens is the responsibility ofGovernment.(Writer is Associate Professor at Government Dental College, andHospital, Aurangabad.)

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Aurangabad :WORLD HEALTH DAY TODAY: Our Planet, Our Health.

Dr Shirish Khedgikar 'World Health Day' is a global health awareness day being celebrated every year on April 7 ... ...