{"id":19681,"date":"2024-04-07T06:07:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T06:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=19681"},"modified":"2024-05-15T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:31:10","slug":"who-warns-millions-right-to-health-under-threat-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/04\/who-warns-millions-right-to-health-under-threat-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO warns millions&#8217; right to health under threat worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that around the world, the right to health of millions is increasingly coming under threat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On occasion of World Health Day, the organization shared a report saying that the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has found that at least 140 countries recognize health as a human right in their constitution. Yet countries are not passing and putting into practice laws to ensure their populations are entitled to access health services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This underpins the fact that at least 4.5 billion people \u2014 more than half of the world\u2019s population \u2014 were not fully covered by essential health services in 2021,&#8221; said WHO in its report.<\/p>\n<p>WHO mentioned the burning of fossil fuels is simultaneously driving the climate crisis and taking away our right to breathe clean air, with indoor and outdoor air pollution claiming a life every 5 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diseases and disasters loom large as causes of death and disability,&#8221; the organization added.<\/p>\n<p>WHO said that to address these types of challenges, the theme for World Health Day 2024 is\u00a0&#8216;My health, my right\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In 1948, at the first World Health Assembly, the World Health Organization decided to name April 7 as World Health Day.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that around the world, the right to health of millions is increasingly coming under threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,218,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-health","category-headline"],"views":65,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20461,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19681\/revisions\/20461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}