Healthcare

[New] Reaching the World Health Organisation targets for air quality could boost the UK economy by £1.6bn a year.
[New] The UK economy could be boosted by £1.6 billion a year if it met World Health Organisation guidelines for air pollution.
In 2019, the European Union passed a best-practice policy, and all 35 countries that are part of the WHO American Region/Pan American Health Organization unanimously approved a regional plan of action to eliminate industrially produced trans fats by 2025.
While diabetes mellitus is the seventh highest global cause of death on its own, according to the World Health Organization, it significantly raises the risk of heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the United States and worldwide.
The energy and technology (22%) industries are currently 5G investment leaders, with health care and financial services (58%) organizations projected to emerge as the biggest investors within three years.
Chinese diplomats recently warned Australia that its calls for the World Health Organisation to probe the origins of the novel coronavirus could see Chinese consumers lose interest in Australian products.
As the specialty food industry hits a record year of growth with $148.7 billion in sales, we are seeing that health benefits and sustainability concerns will continue to drive more food and beverage trends in 2020.
With a growing number of scientists calling for the World Health Organisation to examine airborne transmission of coronavirus, the technology offered by an Irish company could become an important part of the arsenal used against the virus that has brought much of the world to a standstill.
Dozens of Beirut's health facilities are non-functional the World Health Organisation has warned as the number of coronavirus cases in Lebanon's capital surged by a third - sparking fears last week's port explosion has triggered a secondary health crisis.
The World Health Organization has named vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten threats fronting public health in 2020.
Last year, the global market for female-focused health products generated US$820.6M and is estimated to reach at least US$3 B by the end of 2030; Femtech posted US$592.1M in VC investment in 2019, slightly down on 2018's US$ 620.3 million.
Over the next five years, the health care and social assistance industry is forecast to have the largest employment growth of all industries in Western Australia, with the number of disability and aged care workers needing to double to meet demand.
In 2015, China - which has the second highest rate of human rabies deaths in the world - pledged to meet the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal to reach zero human deaths from canine rabies by 2030.
More than 3.2 million people are facing acute food security that threatens their health, and more than half of all Yemeni children under the age of five could be malnourished by the end of 2020, a health emergency that would affect them for the rest of their lives.
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday urged people not to fear catching the novel coronavirus from food, after Chinese testers found traces on food and food packaging.
If everyone had access to sufficient green space, the benefits associated with increased physical activity could save the health system at least £2.1 billion per year.
With air pollution and climate change being named by the World Health Organisation as one of the top ten threats to global health, an important goal for smart cities is to lower emissions.
The global burden of noncommunicable diseases was projected by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health in 2011 to cost over $30 trillion up to 2030, which was the equivalent of almost 50% of global GDP in 2010.
Healthcare providers and officials fear that medical facilities already struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 will face further stress caring for people affected by fires, potentially collapsing the health system in parts of the Amazon region.
If health systems maintain their current policy, public health costs are expected to double by 2050, creating a burden that many countries will not be able to sustain.
The first-ever global hepatitis strategy, adopted by countries at the 2016 World Health Assembly, calls for an end to viral hepatitis by 2030, reducing new infections by 90% and mortality by 65%.
Sub-Saharan Africa would have 3.3 million more young adults alive by 2040 if the health of children were improved with better childbirth practices, treatment of lower respiratory diseases, and prevention of diarrhea and malaria, among others.
With air pollution and climate change being named by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as one of the top ten threats to global health, an important goal for smart cities is to lower emissions.

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Last updated: 20 September 2020