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26 September 2024 marks the 13th World Environmental Health Day (WEHD) since its launch by the International Federation of Environmental Health. It celebrated every year to not only raise awareness of the profession and the health threats that need to be addressed, but as an opportunity for organizations around the globe to band together and host events that encourage environmental health literacy.
This year’s theme; “Environmental Health: Creating resilient communities through disaster risk reduction and climate change mitigation and adaptation,” focuses on climate change and disaster risks that are fundamental threats to sustainable development, the living and health conditions for all humans in the globe and exacerbation of poverty.
The negative impacts threaten to reverse decades of development gains. Building resilient and sustainable communities means addressing both climate change and disaster risks, integrating these risks, and potential opportunities, into development planning and budgeting. The theme is centered on the understanding and acknowledging the upstream health determinants caused by environmental conditions where people are born, eat, live, and grow.
Now, Makerere University Environmental Health Students Association at Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) student’s body advocating for clean environment, healthy living and disease free generation joins International Federation of Environmental Health in commemoration of the day with this webinar to underscore the role of youth and communities in climate change and disaster risk reduction.
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