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Google will provide the World Health Organization and other government agencies, $250 million in ad grants, to provide critical information on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Following the announcement of the WHO Global action plan on the public health response to dementia 2017-2025, TADA Chinese Taipei considered the human rights of people with dementia a priority.
WHO adopted the Global action plan on the public health response to dementia: There is now a target for 75% of Member States to have developed a dementia action plan by 2025.
Within healthcare, health and personal care stores are estimated to spend $97.6 million in 2020 and pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturers are forecast to spend $658.3 million to promote wellness products and services.
As the world struggles to cope with the global pandemic, the viral spread of digital junk news and disinformation is spiralling into an infodemic - a term coined by the World Health Organization - that poses grave risks to public safety.
The risk of two major public health threats converging - a heatwave and the COVID-19 pandemic - is quickly becoming a reality as the US approaches its hottest month of the year with COVID-19 cases continuing to rise.
The global IoT in healthcare market is projected to grow from USD 72.5 billion in 2020 to USD 188.2 billion by 2025, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 21% during the forecast period.
Global spending on healthcare is projected to increase from US$9.7 trillion in 2015 to US$18.28 trillion by 2040 with a projected worldwide shortage of 12.9 million healthcare professionals by 2035.
The needs of the U.S. economy go beyond people with Ph.D.'s, pointing to home health aides, nurses and other jobs projected to grow in the coming years.
The health-related SDG targets for 2030 include satisfying people's needs for modern contraception, reducing maternal and newborn deaths, and ending the HIV epidemic.
Argentina President Alberto Fernandez has announced a halt on the easing of lockdown measures due to an increase in new cases and fears the health system could become overwhelmed.
During the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 the use of digital technologies has increased significantly, enabling people to access health and care while reducing or avoiding the risk of infection.
Taxing individuals with fortunes over $1 million (£785,000) to pay between 2 to 3.5% tax depending on their net wealth in 2020, would allow Latin American governments to raise up to $14.2 billion (£11.6bn) in tax revenue, which could be spent on healthcare and social safety nets.
Many international organisations such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organizations forecasted negative economic growth for both developed and developing countries in the year 2020.
The real-time locating systems (RTLS) market for healthcare is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18.3% between 2018 and 2023, to reach USD 2,941.2 million by 2023.
The global population of adults 60 years old or older is expected to double from 841 million to 2 billion by 2050, presenting clear challenges for our health care system.
By expanding the labor force and increasing productivity, health benefits could be worth $12 trillion in additional annual global GDP in 2040, an 8% uplift to GDP without including additional benefits from future innovations and welfare gains.
The global Augmented Reality (AR) in Healthcare market is expected to grow from USD 651.7 million in 2019 to USD 3,347.3 million by 2024 at a CAGR of 32.9%.
Many developing economies are at risk of being hit hard by dual health and economic shocks with forecasts suggesting a cost of up to 8% in global GDP in 2020.
Disruption to cancer diagnosis services and people avoiding healthcare because of the COVID-19 pandemic could result in around 3,500 potentially avoidable deaths from the four main cancers in England by 2025.
As the world grapples with a global emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare industry is expected to witness a drop in growth from 5.3% to 0.6% in 2020, with revenues remaining below the $2 trillion mark.
California has established the ambitious climate protection goal of achieving full carbon neutrality by 2045 and to do so in a way that supports the health and economic resiliency of urban and rural communities, particularly low income and disadvantaged communities.
With telehealth transforming care delivery and health IT enhancements in analytics and interoperability, digital health will continue to thrive at a growth rate of 7.9% in 2020.

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Last updated: 13 September 2020