US EditionWHO: Pandemic Upended Decade of Progress - and More Headlines
- The World Health Organization has published its 2025 World Health Statistics, revealing major global health declines linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The pandemic caused a 1.8-year drop in global life expectancy between 2019 and 2021, reversing a decade of progress and worsening mental health.
- By 2024, an additional 1.4 billion individuals experienced improved health outcomes, yet challenges persisted with limited progress in expanding access to essential services, workforce deficits, and a rise in noncommunicable diseases.
- The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, emphasized that each statistic represents a real person—such as a child lost before age five or a mother who died during childbirth—and called for urgent, collaborative efforts to prevent these avoidable deaths and get back on track with global health targets.
- Without immediate global efforts to improve health systems and address workforce shortfalls, the world risks missing targets to reduce maternal deaths and premature NCD mortality by 2030.
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Part the First: Retrospective Notes on a Pandemic. BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal, has recently published two interesting pieces on COVID-19. The first is an analysis by Anthony Costello, who was previously Director of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health at the World Heath Organization: UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions […]
Global life expectancy drops 1.8 years since Covid-19 pandemic: WHO report
The World Health Organisation reports a 1.8-year drop in global life expectancy due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The findings highlight urgent challenges in mental health, maternal care, and health worker shortages worldwide.
Global life expectancy plunges as WHO warns of deepening health crisis Post-COVID
Furthermore, recent disruptions in international aid threaten to destabilize progress, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The WHO is calling for sustained and predictable financing from both domestic and global sources to safeguard hard-won health gains and address emerging threats.
WHO: Pandemic upended decade of progress - and more headlines
Medical Watch Digest for May 15 WHO: Pandemic upended decade of progress A new report from the World Health Organization shows the covid pandemic overturned a decade of medical progress. The WHO’s World Health Statistics Report shows global life expectancy fell by almost two years, from 2019 to 2021. Depression and anxiety spiked over that time period. The organization says those numbers balanced out some of the gains made with tobacco use and n…
WHO warns of slowing global health gains in new statistics report - The Canadian Media
WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a decade of health gains. Increased
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