Medscape January 14, 2020
With a new year and new decade here, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a list of 13 urgent global health challenges.
Developed with input from WHO experts around the world, the list is varied and includes stopping infectious diseases and preparing for epidemics, protecting adolescents, elevating health in the climate debate, and delivering healthcare in areas of conflict and crisis.
The list reflects a “deep concern that leaders are failing to invest enough resources in core health priorities and systems,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said in a statement. “This puts lives, livelihoods and economies in jeopardy. None of these issues are simple to address, but they are within reach,” he noted.
All of the challenges...