Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, life expectancy at birth had been steadily increasing globally (UN 2019); and the advancements to older ages and frontiers of longevity were still regularly...
The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region is home to aging populations with some of the world’s highest noncommunicable disease (NCD) burdens, and inertia toward adapting health systems is costing lives...