Immunization: How it started, how it's going – what we’ve achieved through 50 years of vaccination programmes
Immunization is one of the most effective health interventions we can make.
Immunization is one of the most effective health interventions we can make.
Around 2.4 billion workers globally are likely to be exposed to health hazards like cancer, cardiovascular illness, kidney dysfunction and physical injury as a result of climate change, a...
All over the world, people are leading longer lives. This increased life expectancy is one of the great success stories of human development.
In the 15 years following the dawn of the antibiotic era in 1937, the rate of death from infectious diseases fell by a factor of four in the US alone. It halved again in the 30 years afte...
Today healthcare is better — more precise, more predictive and more preventative — than yesterday, and substantially more so than a year or a decade ago. Yet, despite innumerable leaps th...
Global aid is crucial to realizing Africa’s $1 trillion food economy. It can help promote sustainable growth by targeting obstacles, enhancing resilience and unleashing the continent’s ag...
Senior United Nations scientists have called the ongoing global spread of bird flu infections to mammals, including humans, a “significant public health concern”.
By 2050, climate change will place immense strain on global healthcare systems, causing 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic losses. This was the warning from the Quantifyin...
As a society, we are living in increasingly poor health. Today, 70% of deaths worldwide are attributable to four lifestyle behaviours: physical inactivity, poor diet, excess alcohol consu...
Drug-resistant diseases pose a serious and growing threat to humans and animals. Antimicrobial resistance, which renders antibiotics ineffective against bacterial disease, is widely ackno...
歴史的に楽観主義の光であった若者が、年長者よりも幸福度が低いと報告される時代になり、十代の若者たちは危機感と闘っています。
A new report has called for chronic kidney disease to be made a global health priority.
Imagine a world where the most pressing healthcare challenges are met not by incremental steps but by giant leaps of innovation that take us over and beyond the conventional barriers of i...
Vivimos en un mundo en el que los adolescentes se enfrentan a una sensación de crisis antes de llegar a la edad adulta; una época en la que los jóvenes, históricamente modelos de optimism...
Este artículo se publicó originalmente en febrero de 2023 y se actualizó el 3 de abril de 2024.