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Image: World Economic Forum. These are the main challenges on the list. 1. Elevating health in the climate debate. The climate crisis poses one of the biggest threats to both the planet and the health of the people who live on it. Emissions kill around 7 million people each year, and are responsible for more than a quarter of deaths from ...
This means mental health ranks as a higher health concern than cancer (34%) for the first time in these annual Ipsos reports. Stress is also named by 26% of people as a top health concern, ahead of obesity (22%), as the chart below shows. COVID-19 and mental health are the world’s top health concerns, Ipsos says. Image: Ipsos.
But there were other big health stories throughout the year - and some you might have missed, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 1. COVID-19 vaccine and inequities. More than 8.85 billion vaccination doses had been administered by Christmas 2021, and the WHO had validated 10 COVID-19 vaccines as “safe, effective and high ...
Closing this 'gender health gap' would enable more women to join the workforce, potentially boosting the global economy by $1 trillion. A new World Economic Forum and McKinsey Health Institute report highlights the vital need to strive for gender parity in health. The gender health gap affects everyone: our families, communities, workplaces ...
Global healthcare spend is thought to have grown more than 40% between 2018 and 2022, reaching $12 trillion. At the same time, healthcare investments have also reached record highs in recent years, with attention on areas such as gene immunotherapy and new mRNA vaccines for diseases such as Zika and malaria. 2.
From disinformation to inflation, these are the world's most pressing risks. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 says the biggest short-term risk stems from misinformation and disinformation. In the longer term, climate-related threats dominate the top 10 risks global populations will face.
This gender bias in medicine puts women at risk. There’s a sizeable gap in the understanding of what we know about the female body. Even some 30 years later, the scales remain out of balance. For example, as shared in Harvard Health, 70% of those affected by chronic pain conditions are women, whereas 80% of pain research is conducted on males.
1. Less than half of the people in the world have access to essential health services. 2. In 2018, it’s thought that 6.2 million people under the age of 15 died. Of these – mostly preventable – deaths, 5.3 million were children under the age of five, and half of that number were in the first month of their life. 3.
Its release at Davos 2024 was accompanied by the launch of the Global Alliance for Women's Health, whose remit is to prioritize, protect, and promote women's health. Although women live longer than men, on average, they spend more years in ill health and often in their most productive years. Yet, we lack data on women’s biology, and there’s ...
If you think it is lack of access to healthcare, think again. A recent report by The Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems found that 5.7 million people die in low and middle-income countries every year from poor quality healthcare compared with the 2.9 million who die from lack of access to care. In other words, in ...