Здравоохранение

Для большинства людей выбор между опасной для жизни болезнью и пожизненным разорительным долгом вовсе не является выбором. Однако каждый год сотни миллионов людей во всем мире вынуждены это делать из-за чрезмерно высокой стоимости медицинских услуг

In late January, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase announced plans to create a company that would help their employees in the United States obtain heath care “at a reasonable cost.” While details remain sparse, the potential impact is already known: with a combined global workforce of more than one million people, the partnership could overhaul how health care is organized and delivered in the US and beyond

One of the most pressing public-health challenges in Africa today is also one of the least reported: cancer, a leading cause of death worldwide. Every year, some 650,000 Africans are diagnosed with cancer, and more than a half-million die from the disease. Within the next five years, there could be more than one million cancer deaths annually in Africa, a surge in mortality that would make cancer one of the continent’s top killers

В 2014 году Всемирная организация здравоохранения объявила устойчивость к лекарствам, особенно к антибиотикам, возрастающей угрозой здоровью человека, продовольственной безопасности и «достижениям современной медицины». Как говорилось в заявлении ВОЗ, наступление эпохи без антибиотиков превратилось из «апокалиптической фантазии» в «весьма реальную вероятность для XXI века».

In low- and middle-income countries, insufficient access to medical care undermines health outcomes and disadvantages entire generations. But, in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach communities, technology is revolutionizing patients’ engagement with modern medicine. In a remote corner of Ghana, one “telemedicine” program illustrates just how effective digital care can be when coverage is extended to those on the medical margins

In 2014, the World Health Organization reported that drug resistance – especially resistance to antibiotics – is a growing threat to human health, food security, and “the achievements of modern medicine.” Far from being an “apocalyptic fantasy,” the WHO said, a post-antibiotic era “is instead a very real possibility for the twenty-first century”

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The sweeping tax bill that US President Donald Trump signed into law on December 22, 2017, may have been presented as an early Christmas gift. But to the millions of Americans whose health outcomes will worsen as a result, the legislation looks more like a costly white elephant