Healthcare-Associated Infection
Healthcare-associated infections are a major global patient-safety and public-health problem, causing millions of infections, substantial mortality, prolonged hospitalization, and large recurring healthcare and productivity costs.
Severity score
62.4
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
78Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
69People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
67Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
12Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
65Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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