Finding real wealth in health industry
Monday, February 17, 2014
It may be the best time ever to be living right now. Over the past four decades, the life expectancy of Asians has increased by more than a decade to more than 70 years, thanks to the development of the healthcare industry.
New drugs, medical equipment, therapies, organizations, policies and healthcare systems have emerged one after another, bringing improvements in people’s lives and changes in their thinking about health management.
“In the last century, the biggest challenges we had were communicable disease and infectious diseases. Now we are moving into the new century. Our biggest challenges now are NCDs (non-communicable diseases) such as obesity and mental health problems,” says Ara Darzi, chairman of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and executive chairman of the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH). The latest WISH seminar was held in December in Doha, Qatar.
Source: E China News (link opens in a new window)
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