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Jan 16, 2024 · Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 16 January 2024 – A new World Economic Forum report, published today, warns that by 2050 climate change may cause an additional 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic losses worldwide. Despite the stark findings, there is still time for global stakeholders to take decisive, strategic action to counter these forecasts and mitigate the health impacts of ...
Aug 21, 2024 · Heatwaves in Europe in the summer of 2022 that caused more than 60,000 heat-related deaths. And, in 2021, academics analyzing data from 732 locations in 43 countries concluded that 37% of heat-related deaths between 1991 and 2018 could be attributed to climate change.
Apr 2, 2024 · Child deaths have reached a historic low – but there's still much more to do Apr 2, 2024 UNICEF figures show that the mortality rate of children under the age of five is the lowest it has been since 1990.
Jan 17, 2024 · The climate crisis could result in an additional 14.5 million deaths, $12.5 trillion in economic losses, and $1.1 trillion in extra costs to healthcare systems by 2050, according to a new report by the World Economic Forum and Oliver Wyman.
Jan 10, 2024 · GRPS results for 2024, 2026 and 2034 highlight current crises that corrode resilience, as well as new and rapidly evolving sources of risk that will reshape the next decade. For the one-year time frame, respondents were asked to select up to five risks that they feel are most likely to present a material crisis on a global scale in 2024.
Sep 29, 2020 · The number of deaths from COVID-19 has passed one million in almost nine months. The WHO has warned that could double if countries don’t take greater action to tackle the pandemic. 56 million people died in 2017, with cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death globally.
Aug 23, 2024 · It was most recently updated in August 2024. In the space of a century, antibiotics have gone from ground-breaking discovery to losing their effectiveness as a result of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which could lead to 10 million deaths per year by 2050.
Jan 16, 2024 · According to research published in the British Medical Journal earlier this year, half a million AMR-related deaths could be averted through vaccination, particularly in the WHO African and South-East Asian regions, which current carry two-thirds of the vaccine-preventable drug-resistant burden. Investing in increasing coverage of existing vaccines, and in developing new vaccines, is a ...
May 1, 2024 · 1.6 billion workers breathing polluted workplace air, resulting in up to 860,000 work-related deaths of outdoor workers each year. More than 870 million agricultural workers in contact with dangerous pesticides, causing more than 300,000 deaths annually from pesticide poisoning.
Oct 21, 2024 · This article was first published in May 2022, and most recently updated in October 2024. Cancer is one of the world’s biggest killers, with around 10 million deaths per year due to the disease. Scientists working to improve the treatment and diagnosis of cancer are beginning to use AI, DNA sequencing and precision oncology among other techniques.
