More than 95% of the world has health problems, and a third of the world’s population (2.3 billion individuals) is experiencing more than five ailments, according to a new analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2013 published in The Lancet journal on Monday.

As the world’s population grows and the proportion of elderly people increases, the number of people with sub-optimum health will rise rapidly over the coming decades, the authors of the study say.

The analysis revealed that the leading causes of health loss have hardly changed. They include lower back pain, depression, iron-deficiency, anaemia and neck pain. Age-related hearing loss resulted in the largest overall health loss worldwide measured in terms of years lived in disability............Read more

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