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Protecting
health from climate change - World Health Day 2008.
Date Posted: April 7, 2008.
The global community celebrates World Health Day today April
7- an event which marks the founding of the World Health
Organization (WHO). The celebration is used as an
opportunity to draw worldwide attention to a subject of
major importance to global health each year.
World Health Day 2008 focuses on the need to protect health
from the adverse effects of climate change. The theme:
“protecting health from climate change” puts health at the
centre of the global dialogue about climate change.
WHO said it selected this theme in recognition that climate
change is posing ever growing threats to global public
health security.
The organization said through increased collaboration, the
global community will be better prepared to cope with
climate-related health challenges worldwide.
