Global public health days offer great potential to raise awareness and understanding about health issues and mobilize support for action, from the local community to the international stage. There are many world days observed throughout the year related to specific health issues or conditions.
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-World Health Organisation
Events In May 2020
World Hand Hygiene Day
Theme:
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands
As 2020 is the international year of the Nurse and the Midwife, we remind them this world hand hygiene day that clean care is in their hands. Clean health care is among the most urgent challenges identified by the United Nations to be tackled in the next 10 years by the global community, in our race to meeting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) deadline.
World No Tobacco Day
#TobaccosExposed
The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 8 million people a year around the world. More than 7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.