by AIP Online Bureau | Oct 4, 2024 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health
They also found that banning sales of cigarettes and other tobacco products could prevent 1.2 million lung cancer deaths across 185 countries by 2095. Of these deaths, nearly two-thirds would be averted in low- and middle-income countries, because they tend to have...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 24, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Policy, Reinsurance
Between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years to 71.4 years (back to the level of 2012). Similarly, global healthy life expectancy dropped by 1.5 years to 61.9 years in 2021 (back to the level of 2012) Geneva: The latest edition of the World...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 18, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Life
The researchers from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 Forecasting Collaborators said that the ongoing shift in disease burden to non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular ones, cancer and diabetes, and exposure to associated risk factors including...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 12, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
The study found that life expectancy declined in 84 per cent of countries and territories during this time. This demonstrated the “devastating potential impacts of novel pathogens”, the researchers said New Delhi: Global life expectancy dropped by 1.6 years between...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 30, 2024 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
“More education leads to better employment and higher income, better access to health care, and helps us take care of our own health. Highly educated people also tend to develop a larger set of social and psychological resources that contribute to their health...
