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Disease burdens, epidemiology and health systems under systemic stress.
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HX-2026-004 Poverty, Inequality, and the Development Trap Why the polycrisis hits the poor first and hardest: asymmetric hazard vulnerability, human capital attrition, sovereign borrowing penalties, capital cannibalization, and a roadmap to escape the climate-development trap. Development · Economics & Productivity · Systemic Risk Report HX-2026-002 Water Scarcity and Water-System Degradation Why freshwater is the transmission fluid of the global polycrisis: groundwater exhaustion, hydrological whiplash, irrigation demand, urban Day Zero crises, contamination, failing infrastructure, water conflict, economic losses and a circular water roadmap to 2040. Water · Food Security · Public Health Report HX-2026-001 Air Pollution and the Atmospheric Pollution Cycle How air pollution acts as a force multiplier in the global polycrisis: PM2.5 and ultrafine particle physics, health burdens, ozone smog, household biomass, short-lived climate pollutants, wildfire smoke, crop losses, economic costs and a clean-air roadmap to 2040. Air Quality · Climate Change · Public Health Report