| Title: |
The Lancet Commission on improving population health post-COVID-19 |
| Authors: |
Rutter, H.; Wabnitz, K.; Nambiar, D.; Garde, A.; Benton, T.G.; Heymann, D.L.; Yates, R.; Friel, S.; Hollands, G.J.; Cai, W.; Chater, N.; Bloom, D.E.; Guinto, R.R.; El Omrani, O.; Wilsdon, J.; Amuasi, J.H.; Butler, C.; Tlou, S.; Marteau, T.M. |
| Publisher Information: |
Elsevier |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
White Rose Research Online (Universities of Leeds, Sheffield & York) |
| Description: |
An increasing number of national and international commitments have failed to reduce three intimately interconnected major global threats to population health: non-communicable diseases, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and environmental degradation. Non-communicable diseases cause more than 43 million deaths globally every year, of which 18 million are of people younger than 70 years. More than 70% of these deaths occur in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). To date, the official number of COVID-19 cases globally is more than 775 million, with more than 7 million deaths, although the absolute figures are likely to be far higher due to under-reporting. Environmental degradation is unravelling complex ecosystems, setting the world on a path to mass extinction, with the climate crisis creating an existential threat to human survival. The Lancet Commission on improving population health post-COVID-19 was established to draw attention to the interactions between these three threats, the frequently shared structural factors underpinning them, and the opportunities for synergistic actions to address them. Having identified that the three systems of physical environment and transport, agriculture and food, and energy, underpin the three primary threats to population health, the Commissioners agreed upon three aims for the Commission to generate and synthesise evidence on actions needed to achieve: (1) healthy and sustainable physical environment and transport systems; (2) healthy and sustainable agriculture and food systems; and (3) healthy and sustainable energy systems. These aims were used to create a framework to agree a set of objectives via a two-stage survey and modified Delphi exercise that resulted in a final list of ten objectives which were clustered under each of the three aims. In addition, we conducted supporting work: a rapid review of the evidence on drivers of, and policy levers for addressing, the three threats of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), communicable disease, and environmental ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
0140-6736 |
| Relation: |
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/238517/3/LCHC%20full%20report%20-%202%20Dec%202022%20%281%29.pdf; Rutter, H., Wabnitz, K., Nambiar, D. et al. (16 more authors) (2026) The Lancet Commission on improving population health post-COVID-19. The Lancet, 407 (10525). pp. 267-308. ISSN: 0140-6736 |
| Availability: |
https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/238517/ |
| Rights: |
cc_by_4 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.A156D474 |
| Database: |
BASE |