SDIS2021
Urgency, innovation and partnership: applying lessons from COVID-19 to tackle the climate
Among the most important lessons learned during the pandemic is that public-private partnerships on a truly global scale can deliver against the odds.
Global Issue
Industry
Economy
4th Industrial Revolution
Global Issue
Industry
Economy
4th Industrial Revolution
Healthy Futures
Global Health
This Indian state's response to COVID-19 could be a model for equitable healthcare
An initiative in Haryana state, India, offers a potential remedy to under-investment in public health infrastructure – and a silver lining to the pandemic.
SDIS2021
What is health equity – and why does it matter to business?
We are far from achieving health equity. The private sector has an important role to play in addressing health inequities and the root causes of them.
SDIS2021
SDIS21: Healthy Futures - What are the challenges in making healthcare more sustainable?
COVID-19 set us back on many SDG 3 targets. As we start to recover, we must focus on universal health coverage and the health impacts of climate change.
Global Health
Want your fitness programme to succeed? Set your own goals
Setting your own exercise goals and pursuing them immediately, could help result in long lasting changes, according to a new study looking a step counts.
Global Health
Over 1 billion people have hypertension - but half of them don’t even know it. What exactly is this ‘silent killer’?
The number of people with dangerously high blood pressure is on the rise, leaving millions at risk of strokes, heart disease and an early death.
Healthcare Delivery
Why US doctors are prescribing time in the great outdoors
A growing sector of the U.S. medical community is prescribing time outdoors in the same way that they would prescribe normal medication.
Global Health
Why do some locations enhance longevity more than others?
An MIT study examines senior citizens across the U.S. and concludes some locations potentially enhance longevity - although the reasons remain unclear.
Future of Health and Healthcare
In which countries do people exercise most around the world - and what stops them doing more?
An Ipsos survey asked 21,000 adults about exercise - here’s where people are the most active and what stops them from playing sport.
COVID-19
These are the particles that contain the highest concentration of COVID-19
Exposure to fine-particle aerosols needs to be minimized, especially indoors, through methods such as increased air ventilation and social distancing.
Mental Health
Psychologists say a good life doesn’t have to be happy, or even meaningful
A good life isn't focused on happiness or purpose, but rather it’s a life that’s 'psychologically rich', according to two psychology professors.
SDG 06: Clean Water and Sanitation
This 82-year-old Spanish inventor is extracting drinking water from thin air
A device has been developed by Spanish engineers to condense air into drinking water, helping to improve water access for communities in Namibia and Lebanon.
Healthy Futures
Global warming could increase deaths from injury by 1,600 per year in the US
Researchers analysed death and temperature data collected from 1980 to 2017, to estimate the effects of climate change on the rates of injury deaths in the U.S.
Mental Health
Many of us feel ‘empty’ – understanding what it means is important for improving our mental health
A team of researchers in Scotland have examined feelings of 'emptiness' to better understand its prevalence and implications for our mental health.
Emerging Technologies
What is cybersickness and should you be worried?
Cybersickness refers to a cluster of symptoms from device use that include nausea, oculomotor issues like eye strain and general disorientation.