Good
health takes work, and a healthy community takes everyone pitching in to make
it happen. That’s why National Public Health
Week, April 2-8, is a big deal and deserving of our attention.
It’s
pretty simple: The American Public Health
Association wants to create the healthiest nation possible and do so by
promoting the role of a strong public health system. This year’s theme,
Healthiest Nation 2030, showcases the goal of making the United States the world’s
healthiest nation in one generation.
In addition,
toward advocating for access to insurance and healthcare, the APHA also
encourages study into the underlying cause of poor health and disease risk.
That means looking at hunger, low wages, a lack of nutritious food and other
community issues that bar many people from having optimal health.
These
are big problems, and they require big solutions. But they also require each of
us to do something, in our own way, to help tackle access to healthcare and
other basic needs that will make our overall society a better one. Want to plug
in? Join Generation
Public Health now.
And
as a part of that, we also want to call attention to World Health Day
on April 7, a day to celebrate all the hard work of the World Health Organization to help improve
lives all around the planet. The first World Health Day was held in 1950,
marking the WHO’s founding and drawing everyone’s attention to the importance
of global health. Good health — it’s global!
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