55 to 65 years mentioned in the latter report.Īchieving this objective requires us, as a society, to challenge our beliefs about health and reorient material portions of public policy and the economy.Īchieving this objective requires us, as a society, to challenge our beliefs about health and reorient material portions of public policy and the economy.
The MHI aspiration to add 6 years of higher quality life on average is going significantly beyond delaying the average onset of disease from e.g. Data sources comprise WHO HALE data, health system data, life-expectancy data for more than 20,000 administrative regions globally, and the McKinsey Global Institute’s Prioritizing Health report. 1 Calculated in a scenario-based simulation sizing three effects: increase of life expectancy (“extending”), decrease of lifetime spent in poor health, and decrease of lifetime in moderate rather than good health (“lifting” and “squaring the curve"). Humanity needs a goal that yields more time with loved ones, more accomplishments, and more time free from cognitive or physical impairment.Īs a starting point for discussion, the McKinsey Health Institute (MHI) believes that over the next decade humanity could add as many as 45 billion extra years of higher-quality life-roughly six years per person on average, and substantially more in some countries and populations. It’s time to set a new, more ambitious, more relevant goal for human health-a goal that galvanizes across continents, sectors, and communities to support everyone on the planet in adding years to their lives and life to their years. At its best, our response to COVID-19 demonstrates that when resources and motivation coalesce, scientific breakthroughs and large-scale behavior change are possible in very short periods of time. While far from perfect, our success should inspire us to challenge what we think is possible. Humanity mobilized against COVID-19 at a speed and scale previously unseen.
Moreover, significant inequity continues to exist across and within countries. But the portion of life we human beings spend in moderate and poor health hasn’t changed, meaning we spend more years in poor health than at any point in history.
Over the past century, life expectancy has dramatically increased in most parts of the world. In many respects, health is a remarkable success story. This is a decisive moment in the history of human health.
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