Healthcare

• [New] Insulating the UK's draughty homes will save the NHS at least £2bn a year in preventable illness, and switching to electric vehicles will prevent some of the 40,000 deaths each year from air pollution.
• [New] Vietnam's growth in 2020 is expected to be 2.4%, among the highest in the world, thanks to its decisive steps to contain the health and economic fallout from COVID-19.
• [New] WHO aims to ensure that by 2023 1 billion more people enjoy better health and well-being, 1 billion more people are better protected from health emergencies and a further 1 billion more people benefit from universal health coverage.
• [New] New survey evidence of older people in the late summer shows the dramatic effect on older people who still face the risk of not just their lives on hold but deteriorating physical and mental health.
• [New] Biden is widely expected to soothe diplomatic tensions, mend fences with the World Health Organization and re - join the Paris Climate Agreement - from which the US pulled out in 2020.
• [New] As the Singapore economy prepares to transit to Phase 3 - which Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said could last for a year or more - and more economic activities resume to normalcy, GDP growth and inflation numbers are likely to revert to positive territory in 2021.
• [New] The World Health Organization is approaching the end of its Global Health Sector Strategy on Viral Hepatitis, 2016-2021 which has the vision of reducing new infections by 90% - and deaths by 65% - by 2030.
• [New] While air pollution is a major environmental and health problem - with 750,000 annual deaths in China attributable to respiratory diseases associated with poor air quality - water and soil pollution arguably pose a greater threat.
• [New] The global impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are already starting to be felt, and will significantly affect the Trimethyl Acetaldehyde Industry market in 2020.
• [New] As the world grapples with the economic and health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is becoming clear that developing Asia will fall to its first economic contraction in 60 years.
• The World Health Organization has set a goal of eliminating trans-fat in the global food supply by 2023, in order to reduce the 500,000 deaths annually caused by coronary heart disease.
• In 2019, the WHO declared vaccine hesitancy as among the top 10 global health threats, while in 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of vaccines as an essential global health intervention.
• By 2022 Australian homes will host more than 47 million IoT devices, and the value of the global market will exceed $US1 trillion.
• The global battery for IoT market is experiencing a significant growth, and is expected to grow considerably in next few years.
• As people lose jobs, many may face disruptions in their health coverage since most people in the U.S. get their insurance through their job.
• People in poor health have more limited opportunities to participate socially and economically, and poor health has been estimated to cost the UK economy £100bn per year in lost productivity.
• The World Health Organization will begin investigating the source of the novel coronavirus after its efforts to balance science and politics resulted in China blocking international efforts early in the pandemic.
• Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Healthcare Cloud Computing estimated at US$ 14 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$46.
• The wearable bands market will see shipments of 200 million units and the TWS devices shipments is likely to exceed 350 million units next year and the global smart accessories market is projected to grow at a healthy rate of 32% in 2020.
• Eight health insurance companies are offering Illinois consumers health plans in 2020 with new carriers joining the ACA Marketplace Chicago - The Illinois Department of Insurance welcomes three new carriers as it releases health insurance rates for the Illinois Exchange 2021 Plan Year.
• In 2015, the World Health Organization adopted The Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030, providing guidance to countries in their efforts to achieve malaria elimination and setting a goal of reducing global malaria incidence and mortality rates by at least 90% by 2030.
• Toshiba expects the global QKD market to grow to $12 billion in 10 years with the advance of quantum computers, whose massive computational power could easily decipher conventional math-based cryptographic keys commonly used in finance, defence and health care.
• End-user device adoption is projected to accelerate rapidly in 2020, with 5G NR approaching 0.2 B subscriptions, bolstered by healthy NR subscriber adoption in China, Korea, and the US.

Last updated: 22 November 2020