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Lancet Commission identifies seventeen catastrophic threats to global health (opens in a new tab)

news-medical.net · 2026-10-12

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Claim 1 of 6Not checkedA new Commission published in The Lancet identifies 17 interlinked catastrophic threats to global health, spanning disease, social and economic conditions, environmental change, technology and conflict.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 6Not checkedThe Commission says two threats have extinction-potential: the malicious use of artificial intelligence and nuclear conflict.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 6Not checkedThe Commission estimates that action to prevent nuclear conflict could avert 133 million deaths and 9.35 billion DALYs by 2100, while action to reduce the risk of malicious AI could avert 10.4 billion DALYs.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 6Not checkedThe Commission says limiting warming to around 1.8°C rather than 4.4°C could prevent 1.89 billion years of healthy life from being lost, with the estimate likely undercounting some harms.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 6Not checkedThe article reports that 16.1 billion DALYs are amenable to improvements in educational attainment, 13.8 billion DALYs are linked to income inequality, obesity could contribute 23.1 billion potential DALYs, and a collapse in development assistance for health would disproportionately burden sub-Saharan Africa.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 6 of 6Not checkedThe Commission recommends three broad actions: build threat-ready health systems, accelerate investment in breakthrough innovation, and strengthen monitoring of emerging risks.View evidenceHide evidence

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21st century global threats to health are not what you think

The Lancet · 2026

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Crossref, PubMed, Europe PMC · 16 candidate papers

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Disability‐adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and Disability‐adjusted Life Expectancy (DALE)

Determining Health Expectancies · 2002 · Crossref

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Summary Measures of Population Health (SMPH) of the GBD Study: Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALY) and Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy (HALE)

Commentary on the Global Burden of Disease Study · 2025 · Crossref

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