Around the world, health security is increasingly being recognized as the foundation of economic growth. Healthy populations are better able to produce, trade, and innovate, while unhealthy populations strain public budgets and create risks that discourage economic exchange
Imagine a country where some 90% of the population is covered by health insurance, more than 90% of those with HIV are on a consistent drug regime, and 93% of children are vaccinated against common communicable diseases including HPV. Where would you guess this enchanted land of medical equity is? Scandinavia? Costa Rica? Narnia?
“Where is your toilet?” This is often the first question I ask when I visit the site of a cholera outbreak anywhere in the world. More often than not, the answer is: “We don’t have one. We go wherever we can.”
Recent disease outbreaks, like Ebola and Zika, have demonstrated the need to anticipate pandemics and contain them before they emerge. But the sheer diversity, resilience, and transmissibility of deadly diseases have also highlighted, in the starkest of terms, just how difficult containment and prevention can be
Всемирная организация здравоохранения (ВОЗ) подготовила традиционный доклад, в котором каждый год подробно описывает текущее состояние сферы здравоохранения в мире
Один из актуальных вопросов институционального характера в сфере здравоохранения – планируемое присоединение ТОО «Самрук Казына-Фармация» к Фонду социального медицинского страхования
Своим мнением о том, к чему следует стремиться в вопросах охраны здоровья населения, поделился известный профессор медицины, член Американской ассоциации здравоохранения Алмаз Шарман