‘The World Is Failing Its Health Checkup,’ Says WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a report that reveals the "deep health impacts" caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to a reduction in global life expectancy by 1.8 years between 2019 and 2022, which has led to a slowdown in health gains worldwide.

Photo: © UNICEF/Tariq Khalil Health gains are uneven, despite the fact that 14 billion more people live in a healthy way, only 431 million more have gained access to essential health services without economic hardship, and maternal and infant mortality does not decline fast enough to achieve global goals. Geneva, Switzerland.

In just two years, corresponding to the acute phase of the pandemic, between 2019 and 2021, humanity lost 1.8 years of life expectancy, revealed on Thursday, May 15, the World Health Organization (WHO) when presenting the compendium of its annual statistics. Thus, what took two decades to achieve and represented the greatest setback of life expectancy in recent history. This, in addition, of the deaths caused by covid-19, which were 7 million ac…

‘The world is failing its health checkup,’ says WHO

In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy worldwide fell by 1.8 years – the largest fall in recent history according to the World Health Organization (WHO), in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, longevity declined significantly in the world due to the pandemic, reveals WHO Represents the biggest decline in life expectancy in recent history