health predictions for 2030 | Future timeline

Read healthcare predictions for 2030, a year that will see many health revolutions become public—some might save your life ... or even make you superhuman.

Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A futurist consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.

health forecasts for 2030

  • 250 million children worldwide are classified as obese, increasing costs on local healthcare systems. (Likelihood 70%)1
  • Surgeons can reroute nerves to enable paralyzed people to use their hands. 1
  • Artificial blood is mass-produced for transfusions. 1
  • Infrared-capturing graphene technology available in contact lenses. 1
  • Surgeons can reroute nerves to enable paralyzed people to use their hands 1
  • Deafness solved by triggering sensory receptor regrowth in the Atoh1 gene1
  • Artificial blood is mass-produced for transfusions 1
  • Infrared-capturing graphene technology available in contact lenses 1
Forecast
In 2030, a number of health breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example:
  • Canadians born this year are forecasted to live four years longer than the previous generation due to improvements in healthcare and family planning. Likelihood: 60% 1
  • Between 2022 to 2025, Canada enacts a universal, single-payer public pharmacare system worth $15 billion that will draft a national list of prescription medicines that will be covered by the taxpayer. Likelihood: 60% 1
  • Surgeons can reroute nerves to enable paralyzed people to use their hands 1
  • Deafness solved by triggering sensory receptor regrowth in the Atoh1 gene 1
  • Artificial blood is mass-produced for transfusions 1
  • Infrared-capturing graphene technology available in contact lenses 1

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