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Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare
By 2050, the world’s population will have risen to 9.7 billion, with 2 billion over the age of 60. However, the global health and healthcare system is ill-equipped to deal with this demographic transformation. To keep populations healthy and to cure patients more effectively, solutions need to come from outside traditional healthcare.
Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare provides a unifying framework for health promotion and improved healthcare delivery. The effort brings together stakeholders from the public and private sectors to catalyse opportunities to accelerate these goals by managing future epidemics, promoting healthy behaviours, improving financial inefficiencies and sustainability in healthcare, and developing a global platform for access to healthcare.
Initiatives
Value in Healthcare
Global healthcare has seen tremendous advancements in medical knowledge and innovation yet many informed observers doubt that society is getting the full value of the annual USD 6.5 trill...
Global Platform for Access to Care
Over 80 percent of populations in emerging markets remain without access to basic care. Each year, 100 million people fall into poverty due to catastrophic healthcare expenditures. The a...
Managing the Risk and Impact of Future Epidemics
The recent Ebola crisis will not be the last serious epidemic the world faces; public health outbreaks are likely to become ever more complex and challenging. By 2050, the world’s populat...
Human-Centric Health
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are recognized as the biggest killer than all other health causes combined with mortality rates projected to increase from 38 million to 62 million by 204...
Reports
Technological Innovations for Health and Wealth for an Ageing Global Population
Over the past two years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Ageing has examined the nexus of health and wealth among older adults. This executive briefing explores and ev...
Health Systems Leapfrogging in Emerging Economies
This report focuses on catalysing change through an “ecosystem approach” to partnerships. To effectively implement health innovations, we need closer and more efficient cooperation betwee...
Managing the Risk and Impact of Future Epidemics: Options for Public-Private Cooperation
The report aims to start a dialogue between the private sector, the international community and the leaders who will form collaborations.