April 7th 2019 is World Health Day. The aim of world health day is to achieve universal health care for all peoples on earth. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the things that individuals and civil society can do to get involved are:
- Communicate your needs, opinions and expectations to local policy-makers, politicians, ministers and other people representatives.
- Make the necessary noise to ensure your community health needs are taken into account and prioritized at the local level, including through social media.
- Invite civil society organizations to help raise your community needs to your policy-makers.
- Share your stories as affected communities and patients with the media.
- Organize activities like discussion fora, policy debates, concerts, marches and interviews to provide people an opportunity to interact with their representatives on the topic of UHC via media and social media.