World Health Day 2023
*NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / April 3, 2023 /* America's Charities
World Health Day takes place on April 7th each year, marking the anniversary of when the World Health Organization (WHO) was founded. WHO selects a different theme each year, focusing on one of the topics from their 6-point agenda and highlighting a priority area of concern.
1.* Health and Development: *advocate for greater recognition of the bidirectional links between poverty and poor health, and strengthen intersectoral work to address health risks and socio-economic determinants
2.* Health and Security: *taking steps to reduce health risks from outbreaks of new, existing and mutating diseases, and providing assistance to countries in strengthening trauma care and mass casualty management systems
3.* Health Systems: *Bridging the prevention and treatment gaps, and integrating management of chronic conditions, nutrition services, and mental health into primary healthcare, including prevention and community-based rehabilitation
4.* Information and Knowledge:* Devising guidelines on evidence-based interventions for health promotion and risk reduction
5.* Partnerships:* promote partnerships for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, nutritional deficiencies, mental and substance use disorders, violence and injuries, and disabilities.
6.* Performance: *Monitor noncommunicable diseases, nutritional deficiencies, mental and substance use disorders, violence and injuries, and disabilities, and their determinants and to evaluate progress at the national, regional and global levels.
*In honor of #WorldHealthDay, America's Charities is celebrating our member charities whose programs and health care services ensure that everyone, everywhere, can realize the right to good health.*
*Click on the nonprofit's name to learn more about what they do.*
· AIDS Fund
· Alzheimer's Disease Research (BrightFocus Foundation)
· Alzheimer's - Insight Memory Care Center
· American Red Cross Serving Central Texas
· Breast Cancer Coalition
· Capital Caring
· CMT Research Foundation
· Diabetes Research Institute Foundation, Inc.
· Diabetes Research & Wellness Foundation
· FNIH (Foundation for the National Institutes of Health)
· Hope Connections for Cancer Support
· International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region
· Melanoma Research Alliance
· The Marfan Foundation
· Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
· Montgomery Hospice, Inc.
· Multiple Sclerosis Association of America
· NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation
· National Down Syndrome Society
· Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance
· Ronald McDonald House Charities®
· The Caring Foundation of Texas
· The Children's Inn At NIH
· YMCA of Metropolitan Washington
*On April 7th and all year round through workplace giving, we encourage you to:*
· Join us in celebrating World Health Day! Follow us on Twitter and Facebook as we share how our members' specific programs and impact.
· One of the most cost-efficient ways you can support these nonprofits is to donate to them via payroll deduction through your employer's workplace giving program (Don't have a program? Click here to have your employer contact our team.) Click on each charity's name above to learn more about their work, and to make a donation now!
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