Celebrated on 7 April, World Health Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of global health in general while shedding light on a specific health theme every year. The World Health Organization (WHO) created the day in 1948 and started implementing it in 1950. Each year, the WHO chooses one of its priority areas and draws worldwide attention to this specific health-related matter. In accordance with this year’s theme, “Building a fairer, healthier world”, the goal is to increase awareness for health inequities and to advocate for the elimination of these injustices.
Some of the focal points of World Health Day in the last decade included the work of nurses and midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic, a universal health coverage, mental illnesses such as depression, the fight against diabetes, food safety, heart health or antimicrobial resistance.
If you want to learn more about health-related topics and practise your interpreting skills at the same time, we propose you choose one of the 478 public speeches or one of the 284 restricted speeches on the domain of health in our various languages on the Speech Repository.
To make practising a bit more fun, we prepared a short quiz with questions in various languages for you where you can test your knowledge on the subject – you will find the answer in the indicated speech on the Speech Repository!
- Diabetes: What are the warning signs that a child might suffer from type 1 diabetes? (EN speech 26740)
- Schwangerschaft: Ab wann gilt eine Frau dem Gesetz nach als schwanger? (DE speech 24145)
- Le rhume : Qu’est-ce qui pourrait vous aider en cas d’obstruction nasale quand vous avez un rhume ? (FR speech 29053)
- La depresión: ¿Cuántas personas sufren de depresión a nivel mundial? (ES speech 26839)
- Consum de cafea: Care este relație între consumul de cafea și riscul apariției de diabet tip 2? (RO speech 28341)
- Sen: Uważa się, że dobry sen przedłuża życie. Jaką część życia poświęcamy na sen? (PL speech 23991)
- Odżywianie się: Dieta śródziemnomorska jest uważana za jedną z najzdrowszych na świecie. W czym tkwi tajemnica tej diety? (PL speech 23049)
Happy practice!
Your Speech Repository Team