Every year on April 7, the Global Community observes World Health Day and resembles the establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. This day serves as an opportunity to draw attention to the global health worldwide attention to global health. In 2025, it focuses on the health of mothers and newborns, encapsulated in the topic of “Healthy Beginnings, promising futures”.
This topic underlines the critical importance of ensuring quality health care for mothers and their newborns. According to the WHO, approximately 287,000 mothers lost their lives due to complications related to pregnancy and birth in 2020. This alarming statistics emphasizes the urgent need for improved parent health services around the world.
“Our health begins before birth. This is a multi -generation heritage, depending on our grandparents to our parents,” said Saima Wazed, who regional director of Southeast Asia. “This means that when we improve the health of our people today, the effects vomit over time and increase generations still unborn.”
The aim of the campaign “Healthy beginnings, promising futures” is:
- Stress the gaps in the survival of mothers and newborns and emphasize the need to prefer long -term well -being of women.
- Encourage effective investments that increase the health of women and children.
- Mobilize support to parents and healthcare workers who provide critical care.
- Disseminate useful health information regarding pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal period.
This year’s World Health Day also means the beginning of a year -round campaign devoted to the health of mothers and newborns. This initiative calls on the government and the global medical community to intensify the efforts to end the death of the mother and newborns that can be preceded and preferred the overall health and well -being of women.
According to The Times of India, significant advances have been made to improve mothers’ health in India. The Ministry of Health and Family Care showed a reduction in the ratio of mother mortality (MRD) from 130 to 100,000 live births in 2014–16 to 97 per 100,000 lively born in 2018-20-20.
As the world observes World Health Day 2025, the emphasis on the health of mothers and newborns serves as a reminder of the basic role that these aspects play in building healthier societies. Ensuring every mother and child have access to quality health care is not only a moral imperative, but also a key investment in the future well -being of communities around the world.
(Tagstotranslate) World Health Day 2025
