Over 95% of global population suffer from health problems

Only 4.3% of the world’s population have no health issues, with growth in the aging population potentially playing a part in the significant increase of illness, according to recently released data from The Lancet. “The implications of our findings are substantial. By extending the [Global Burden of Disease Study] analysis to report the commonly understood measures of morbidity and disability in populations, by age, by sex, by country and over time, this study represents an enormous resource for national, regional, and global policy debates about health priorities, not just to keep people alive well into old age, but to also keep them healthy. Without this health intelligence, large, preventable causes of health loss in populations, particularly mental and behavioral disorders and serious musculoskeletal disorders, have thus far not received the attention that they deserve in the national health debates,” the researchers wrote.