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The report, called "Global Health and Healthcare Strategic Outlook" and released ahead of the WEF's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, says that the world's health-care system is struggling to keep up with technological advances and is facing a shortage of workers that will affect access to care, inequities in treatment of mental health, and the treatment of violence and burnout, CNBC reports.
"We now need to focus on long-term system change to stop health services deteriorating in the face of economic crises," the report's head of health and healthcare, Shyam Bishen, says in a statement.
The report, which looked at case studies from around the world, says that the world's health-care system dropped 25% between 2000 and 2016 as a result of the Covid-19 virus and other pandemics, the BBC reports.
It also warns that a shortage of health-care workers is expected to rise to 10 million by the end of the decade as more people seek treatment outside of hospitals and doctors' offices.
"The threat of violence and burnout are real and is one of the...
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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is out with a new report on substance abuse, and it's a doozy.
The report, published in the journal Alcoholism and Alcoholism: Clinical,...more
Fahren Nipple is an autopsy assistant in Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and she's also the assistant program director for the Master of Science in Forensic Medicine at the Graduate...more
If you've ever wanted to be a nurse, now's your chance.
TheGalen College of Nursing has opened a new 40,000-square-foot campus in Richardson, Texas, that's specifically dedicated to nursing...more
Employees of BlackRock, the world's biggest asset management firm, will soon be able to sock away money for retirement without worrying about running out of it.
The firm has teamed up with the...more
The German state of Bavaria and the Australian state of Queensland are teaming up to work on a host of cutting-edge projects, including artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, clean energy,...more
When Heidi Allison and her husband, Larry Rhoades, opened Nate's Place a year ago in Oxnard, Calif., they had one goal: to help at-risk teens and young adults stay on the right track with sobriety...more
Lisette Nieves was the first Puerto Rican woman and the first Brooklyn College grad to be a Rhodes scholar when she graduated from the college in 1992.
Now she's the president of the Fund for the...more
A group of 30 Nobel Peace Prize winners gathered at the Vatican this week to talk about promoting peace, and one of them had a message for today's "profit-centric" society: It's time to create a "...more
"To be a great investor, you have to be open-minded and look for misunderstood opportunities."
That was Christopher Pan's advice to Ohio State University's graduating class on Sunday, and he's...more
"It is a night that shines a light on some of the best and brightest women in business."
So reads a press release on the winners of the 2024 IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards in Ireland,...more
Three social enterprises were recognized at the 2013 President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Award for their major contributions to society. SATA CommHealth and Bliss Restaurant landed Social Enterprise of the Year titles, while Bettr Barista Coffee Academy bagged the award for Social Enterprise Start-up of the Year.