Special Reports

Every country's population is growing or shrinking at a different rate, even as the world's daily birth rate continues to exceed the daily death rate. It's important to understand how quickly a country's population is growing or shrinking, ranked from most developed to least developed. The fertility rate is one...

Suicide is a widespread problem that's influenced by various factors, such as mental health disorders, depression levels, and overall satisfaction with life. Lesotho has the highest suicide rate globally at 72.4 per 100,000 people, followed by Guyana, Eswatini, South Korea, and Kiribati. In South Korea, the high rate of suicide...

According to a new global health index, some countries are healthier than others based on ten measures. These measures include healthy life expectancy, blood pressure, blood glucose (which indicates diabetes risk), obesity, depression, happiness, alcohol use, tobacco use, inactivity (or lack of exercise), and government spending on healthcare. It then...

Human resources are considered one of the key drivers of a country's economy. As a result, population analysts monitor death rates to gain an understanding of the overall health and well-being of a population. A country's mortality or death rate is the number of deaths that occur within a specific...

Access to high-quality and affordable healthcare services has been a persistent issue in many countries. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), half of the world's population lacks access to the healthcare solutions they need. However, as of 2024, many countries have implemented universal healthcare systems financed by...

Lung cancer is the world's second-most common cancer after breast cancer. This critical disease starts in the lung, and its usual onset is after the age of 40 years old. As a common ailment afflicting people worldwide, lung cancer rates are high in some parts of the globe. In this article,...

Dementia is a common health condition affecting people aged 65 and above. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it isn't a particular disease but a general word for impaired capability to think, decide, or recall. Dementia interferes with people's performance of their daily activities. Its most...

In a recent article for CEOWORLD magazine, I wrote about making 2024 the year you substitute setting (and often failing to achieve) New Year’s Resolutions for choosing one word to frame the year you want to experience. A word that will act as your true north so that you stay...

When I spoke with Sam Reese, currently CEO of Vistage Worldwide, it had been a decade since he miserably flunked retirement. “I thought, yeah, I’m somebody who can step away and feel like I’d accomplished a lot.” he told me. After fifteen years at the helm of Miller Heimann, the sales...

Poliovirus cases worldwide have dropped by 99.9 percent since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) began in 1988. The GPEI aims to deliver anti-polio immunization to low-income and developing nations. In the United States, polio was a massive healthcare problem in the 1950s. Paralytic poliomyelitis inflicted 20,000 patients in 1952. But...