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New 2020 World Health Statistics 📊 - an annual check-up on the 🌐’s health - published today:
People are living longer and healthier lives but #COVID19 threatens to throw progress off track

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#WorldHealthData 📊: life expectancy has increased.
Biggest gains in low-income countries where it ↗️ 21% (11 yrs) between 2000 & 2016 due to:
⚕️Improved access to health services to prevent & treat HIV, malaria & TB
🤱🏻Better maternal & child healthcare

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#WorldHealthData 📊: All over the world, the #COVID19 pandemic is causing significant loss of life, disrupting livelihoods, and threatening the recent advances in health and progress towards global development goals.

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#WorldHealthData 📊: Overall shortage of services to prevent & treat NCDs like #cancer, diabetes, 💗& 🫁 disease, & stroke. In 2016, 71% 🌐 deaths were attributable to #NCDs, with the majority of deaths (85%) occurring in low and middle-income countries.
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#WorldHealthData 📊: Less than half the 🌐’s population was able to obtain essential health services in 2017. Service coverage in low- and middle-income countries remains well below coverage in wealthier ones; as do health workforce densities.
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#WorldHealthData 📊: In more than 40% of all countries, there are fewer than 10 medical doctors 👩🏻‍⚕️ per 10 000 people. Over 55% of countries have fewer than 40 nursing 🧑🏻‍⚕️and midwifery 👨🏻‍⚕️ personnel per 10 000 people.

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#WorldHealthData 📊: In 2020 approximately 1 billion people will be spending at least 10% of their household budgets on health care - a major financial burden. The majority of these people live in lower middle-income countries.

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#WorldHealthData 📊: Globallly in 2017:
🚻 55% of ppl. lacked access to safely-managed sanitation services
🚰 29% of ppl. lacked safely-managed drinking water
🧼 40% of households lacked basic handwashing facilities with soap & water in their home

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#WorldHealthData 📊: Stronger data & health information systems required to:
✅understand population health trends
✅develop policies
✅allocate resources
✅prioritize interventions
✅prepare for, prevent & respond to health emergencies like #COVID19

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