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We turned to our IHME experts for their takes on the most critical health issues to watch in 2023. Entering our fourth year grappling with COVID-19, most of our experts pointed to issues that were impacted in some way by the pandemic, like long COVID and mental health.
Today, health services in all regions are struggling to both tackle COVID-19, and provide people with vital care. In another blow, the pandemic threatens to set back hard-won global health progress achieved over the past two decades - in fighting infectious diseases, for example, and improving maternal and child health.
CDC helps countries respond to disease outbreaks and stop them at their source before they spread. See a list of current outbreaks and outbreak-related resources.
With a new decade in full swing, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a list of pressing health challenges for the next 10 years, developed by public health and policy experts around the world. The United Nations General Assembly has labeled the 2020s as "the decade of action."
Health systems. Infection prevention and control. Conditions. Infertility. Diseases and conditions. Influenza (avian and other zoonotic) Diseases and conditions. Influenza seasonal. Socio-political determinants.
The latest health updates including coverage on healthcare, covid, vaccines, global health, mental health, health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and more.
COVID-19/Coronavirus. Stay informed and help spread facts, not rumors (photo courtesy CDC on Unsplash) #ClimateChangesHealth. Learn more about the health impacts of climate change. Racism and health. We must address injustices caused by racism. Tobacco. APHA champions efforts to help Americans live tobacco-free lives.
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 diseases including heart attacks, stroke and lung cancer.
We identify ten public health challenges that need to be closely tracked in 2022. These challenges are COVID-19, inadequate human resources for health, poor health systems financing, conflict and humanitarian crises, mental health, poverty, climate change, the health of children, reproductive health issues, and the infodemic.
Famine and conflict threaten the lives and health of millions. In the greater Horn of Africa and the Sahel, climate-related drought and flooding are supercharging a food crisis, and driving outbreaks of cholera, yellow fever, measles and vaccine-derived polio.