Diet paterns — both, levels of consumption and composition — increase the “triple burden” of undernourishment, over-nourishment and malnutrition on peoples' health, mostly in developing countries. |...
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Climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050 due to heat stress, diarrhoea, malaria, and childhood undernutrition. |...
While having many advantages in terms of economies of scale, the high density of both population and infrastructure in urbanised areas can also make many of the implications related...
Cities are estimated to generate 80% of all economic growth. OECD studies showed that, for each doubling of population size, the productivity level of a city increases...
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Air pollution remains the single largest environmental health hazard in Europe, resulting in a lower quality of life due to illnesses and an estimated over 500,000 premature deaths...
Humanity's health is improving rapidly; life expectancy at birth increased globally from 46 years in 1950 to 71.5 years in 2015, with the 5 years increase between 2000...
90% of all health R&D expenditure is targeted at problems that affect only 10% of the world’s population.| Related Megatrends: Inequalities; Technology About 20% of health expenditure...
Noncommunicable Disease (NCDs) are the leading cause of disability and death in Europe: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer and respiratory disease account for 77% of the burden of disease and 86%...
Ischaemic heart disease and stroke have been the world’s top causes of death for the past 15 years (accounting for a combined 15 million deaths in 2015) and are...