Healthcare

[New] The needs of the U.S. economy go beyond people with Ph.D.'s, pointing to home health aides, nurses and other jobs projected to grow in the coming years.
[New] To avert the imminent health risks posed by climate change, the World Medical Association and British Medical Association have advocated for the adoption of a target of net zero emissions by 2030.
[New] The health-related SDG targets for 2030 include satisfying people's needs for modern contraception, reducing maternal and newborn deaths, and ending the HIV epidemic.
[New] During the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 the use of digital technologies has increased significantly, enabling people to access health and care while reducing or avoiding the risk of infection.
[New] By expanding the labor force and increasing productivity, health benefits could be worth $12 trillion in additional annual global GDP in 2040, an 8% uplift to GDP without including additional benefits from future innovations and welfare gains.
[New] The Climate Crisis Action Plan would save more than 60,000 American lives every year by 2050 by reducing air pollution, as well as nearly $8 trillion saved through 2050 thanks to health and climate benefits.
Many international organisations such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organizations forecasted negative economic growth for both developed and developing countries in the year 2020.
The global population of adults 60 years old or older is expected to double from 841 million to 2 billion by 2050, presenting clear challenges for our health care system.
Spending for health care, especially for older Medicare beneficiaries, will be the single largest source of US federal budget growth over the next 20 years.
Current patterns in food consumption are estimated to result in health costs of over $1.3 trillion per year by 2030.
Improving the overall national nutrition and health of China is one of the core steps to reach the goal of the Healthy China plan by 2030.
America's national health expenditures now total more than $3.8 trillion per year, or 17.8% of gross domestic product (GDP), and they are projected to reach 19.4% of GDP by 2027.
In order for the UK NHS to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, carbon needs to become an additional currency alongside money, understood by everyone working in the health system.
China has an increase in health and wellness spending being forecast despite economic slowdown, a growing trend which will be boosted by the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak.
Many developing economies are at risk of being hit hard by dual health and economic shocks with forecasts suggesting a cost of up to 8% in global GDP in 2020.
California has established the ambitious climate protection goal of achieving full carbon neutrality by 2045 and to do so in a way that supports the health and economic resiliency of urban and rural communities, particularly low income and disadvantaged communities.
Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics an predict the world's population to be 8.8bn by 2100 - almost 2bn billion fewer than projections published in a 2019 United Nations report.
Apart from global health concerns, there are issues associated with the reform of the World Trade Organisation; respective climate policies as the important COP26 at the end of 2021 nears; and a large number of issues related to digital questions.
Global Telemental Health Market is expected to rise gradually to an estimated value of USD 15.15 billion by 2026, registering a CAGR of 24.65% in the forecast period of 2019-2026 with the annual sales of USD 2.60 billion in the year of 2018.
Because of the economic crisis, which was triggered by the current pandemic, which was worsened by a lack of public-health investment, public-health agencies will probably suffer more budget cuts in the coming years.
EPA's proposal to retain the current primary ozone NAAQS will help the U.S. continue to reduce emissions, protect public health consistent with the Clean Air Act, and enable economic growth.
About one-third of economic growth in advanced economies in the past century could be attributed to improvements in the health of global populations.
Increased cost of healthcare services coupled with high prevalence of lifestyle diseases as compared to the earlier years will likely to accelerate the growth of the health insurance market in the forecast period of 2020-2027.

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Last updated: 09 August 2020