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Health inequities are shortening lives by decades - Caribbean News Global
- The World Health Organization published a global report on May 6, 2025, detailing health inequities worldwide from New Delhi.
- The report shows that social determinants like poor housing, education, and job access cause life expectancy gaps of up to 33 years.
- It highlights that 3.8 billion people lack adequate social protection and that inequities worsen with discrimination and social disadvantage.
- Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, emphasized that the places and environments in which people are born, develop, and spend their lives have a profound impact on their overall health and well-being.
- The report calls for collective action to reduce economic inequality, structural discrimination, and climate impacts to improve global health equity.
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The world is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown in human development, with progress slowing down to the lowest level in 35 years. This is the main conclusion of the annual report of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), published on Tuesday, which analyses key indicators such as life expectancy, education or income.This stagnation also affects all regions of the planet.
Health Inequities Are Cutting Lives Short by Decades, New Report Warns
🌍A sweeping new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded the alarm over deepening global health inequities that are slashing life expectancies by decades—often regardless of a country’s income level. According to the World Report on Social Determinants of Health Equity, published in May 2025, disparities in education, housing, employment, and social protection—not
GENEVA – The underlying causes of poor health are almost always associated with factors outside the sector, such as the quality of housing, education and employment opportunities, says the most recent report released by the World Health Organization (WHO). “Our world is an unequal world. The place where we are born, [...] This article Health inequalities shorten life in tens of years was originally published in IPS News Agency
Social conditions such as lack of housing, education or good job opportunities are often more determinant causes of a bad health.
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