For Ali Mohammad, a 33-year-old property management worker who started smoking in his teens, the saying ‘health is wealth’ has special significance. After Maldives hiked import duties on tobacco products to 60% of retail price in May 2017, Ali made a potentially […]
20 May 2022 – Geneva: The World Health Organization has published its latest comprehensive set of World Health Statistics for 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic – which led to an estimated 4.5 million excess deaths in that year. The […]
Using local authority estimates has important implications for policy. We look at how these estimates are used in the indicators, as well as how they compare to other measures of geographical inequalities in healthy life expectancy. Construction of the healthy life expectancy […]
PHOTO | AALIYAH BOWDEN Carolyn Cabral of Charlotte is part of a relatively exclusive club as a nonagenarian, or person between the ages of 90-99. In November, Carbal, 99, will reach a rarer […]
At a Glance Researchers found that people who maintained five healthy lifestyle factors lived more than a decade longer than those who didn’t maintain any of the five. The results suggest that Americans can increase the length of their lives and lower […]
The chairman, Association of Private Practicing Surveyors of Nigeria(APPSN) Lagos branch Mr. Adaranijo Rafiu yesterday cleared the air on the enrollment of its members in Ilera Eko health insurance scheme propelled by Lagos State government, urging members to take their health as […]
US Postal Service employees and their dependents now know the health insurance that will be available to them next year as part of a new exchange. Office of Personnel Management officials said on March 12 that the agency had conditionally approved 32 […]
The 2023 Farm Bill is projected to spend $700 billion over the next five years, with powerful industry lobbyists directing funds to enrich themselves at the expense of agricultural communities, human health, animal welfare, and environmental sustainability. It’s far from its original […]