{"id":87327,"date":"2021-04-07T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alj.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=87327"},"modified":"2021-04-07T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T07:17:08","slug":"building-a-fairer-healthier-world-for-everyone-world-health-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/alj.com\/en\/news\/building-a-fairer-healthier-world-for-everyone-world-health-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a fairer, healthier world for everyone: World Health Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Access to health care should be a basic human right, and yet, millions of people around the world are denied this, because of where they were born.\u00a0 We believe a person\u2019s birthplace, proximity to infrastructure, or lack of wealth should not be a barrier to access to modern healthcare<\/p>\n<p>Today, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/westernpacific\/news\/events\/world-health-day\">World Health Day 2021<\/a>, we are joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/\">United Nations<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/westernpacific\">World Health Organization<\/a> in working to <strong>build a fairer, healthier world for everyone<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jiS_-wrtPBE\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The world is still dramatically unequal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two-thirds of sub-Saharan countries fail the World Health Organization global target of 80% of people living within two hours of a hospital<\/li>\n<li>More than 287 million people \u2013 including 64 million women of child-bearing age \u2013 live more than two hours away from medical care (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/westernpacific\">WHO<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>More than 1 billion people living in informal settlements or slums face increased challenges in preventing infection (<a href=\"https:\/\/sdgs.un.org\/goals\/goal11\">UN SDG<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Life expectancy sits at 53 years old in Central African Republic, while it is 82 years old in the Netherlands (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/data\/gho\/whs-2020-visual-summary\">WHO<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alj.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ALJ-Healthcare-Rich-and-Poor-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"ALJ Healthcare Rich and Poor\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.alj.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ALJ-Healthcare-Rich-and-Poor-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/media.alj.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ALJ-Healthcare-Rich-and-Poor-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.alj.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ALJ-Healthcare-Rich-and-Poor-1024x607.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.alj.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ALJ-Healthcare-Rich-and-Poor-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/media.alj.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ALJ-Healthcare-Rich-and-Poor-768x455.jpg 768w, 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