This year’s World Health Day, a WHO campaign, focuses on the theme of “our planet, our health” to draw attention to ways in which the health of the planet affects human health and well-being.
Because a polluted planet causes greater incidence of diseases such as cancer, asthma and heart disease — with 13 million deaths worldwide each year attributable to avoidable environmental causes, according to WHO estimates — the organization called for global attention and urgent actions to address planetary health.
To acknowledge World Health Day, Healio compiled this list