Tagged with Chronic Disease

Singapore Singapore is one of the healthiest countries in Asia with a life expectancy in excess of 82 years buttressed by one of the most robust healthcare apparatuses in the world. “It’s important not to overlook the strengths of this system and just how strong healthcare delivery, affordability and access is…

Switzerland Saad Harti, president of Legacy Healthcare, discusses the company’s origins, their unique focus on side-effect free botanical drugs for chronic conditions, and the importance of stakeholder education in this exciting but still immature field.   Most of our current emphasis is on alleviating side effects of cancer treatments, also called…

Mexico Joel Osorio, CEO & Founder Alejandro De La Parra, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer Alexa Jeppi, Co-Founder, RegenerAge Beauty & Health Ira Pastor, Board Member             The CEO of RegenerAge, Dr. Joel Osorio, explains the transformative power of Bioquantine—a novel biological complex used in regenerative…

Singapore Recently established in Singapore, Holmusk is a global digital health platform that truly believes in early detection and early intervention. Founder and CEO Nawal Roy describes the underlying motivations behind the company’s founding, the value of positively influencing patient behavior—particularly in tackling chronic diseases—, and how their technology benefits not…

Healthcare In light of the recently released OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Mexico 2016, Roberto Martinez, general director of the OECD Mexico Center for Latin America, reveals the OECD’s key findings and strategic priorities for fostering inclusive growth and better health outcomes in Mexico, while the Center keeps on strengthening its…

Healthcare Senator Salvador Brito, President of the Health Commission at the Mexican Senate, talks about increasing access to quality healthcare services among the most vulnerable groups in Mexican society, improving and developing life-changing prevention policies, tackling corruption, and investing in health to ensure the country doesn’t compromise its growth perspective. What…

Hungary Preventive healthcare and health literacy are core issues in Hungary that, if left unaddressed, may hinder the country’s ability to push its health agenda forward and create a more sustainable system.   According to the OECD, life expectancy at birth in Hungary was 75.6 years in 2014, well below the…

Healthcare In part two of a two-part interview (read part one here), Mikel Arriola of the IMSS discusses the strategic roadmap IMSS will follow under his tenure with regards to innovation access and chronic disease prevention, as well as his approach to the upcoming implementation of exchanges of services among the…