Today marks 75 years since the establishment of the World Health Organization (WHO) and yet 30 per cent of the global population is still unable to access basic health services according to WHO’s data. This year on World Health Day, WHO has looked back to its founding principle to set the theme of Health for…
To mark World Health Day (WHD), the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) is highlighting the leading role the nursing profession plays in mitigating the climate crisis and reducing emissions in the health care sector. The 2022 WHD theme, ‘our planet, our health’, shines a spotlight on the devastating impacts of climate change on the health…
To mark World Health Day 2020, The World Health Organization (WHO) — in partnership with the International Council of Nurses and Nursing Now — have released the ‘State of the World’s Nursing 2020: investing in education, jobs and leadership’ report. The report is the first of its kind and coincides with a year dedicated by…
The theme for this year’s World Health Day is ‘Support Nurses and Midwives’. The World Health Organization (WHO) has chosen this in order to remind world leaders of the critical role nurses and midwives play in keeping the world healthy. The Australian College of Nursing has called on the Commonwealth Government to take the theme…
by ACN Media Officer Jessica Pham 7 April each year marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (more commonly known as the WHO) in 1948. The rest of the world celebrates it as World Health Day – a day for global awareness of a single health challenge that can create global…