1/ Wiki on Public healthcare in China
2/ A study from the Economist here
3/ Report from the WHO on mental health over here
4/ More on mental health here
2/01/2011
China country studies
Rainer's found this really interesting study on healthcare in China
.... Since the founding of the People's Republic, the goal of health programs has been to provide care to every member of the population and to make maximum use of limited health-care personnel, equipment, and financial resources. The emphasis has been on preventive rather than curative medicine on the premise that preventive medicine is "active" while curative medicine is "passive." The health-care system has dramatically improved the health of the people, as reflected by the remarkable increase in average life expectancy from about thirty-two years in 1950 to sixty-nine years in 1985...
Read the rest of the study here
1/31/2011
Gaps in detecting epidemics/ China
PSFK Future of Healthcare
PSFK's prepared a report for the UNICEF on the future of healthcare.
Full report can be accessed here:
http://www.psfk.com/future-of-health
Here's an extract from the report:
In the first half of the Future of Health Report, PSFK provides an analysis of the trends impacting healthcare around the world. We explore this future from the perspective of organizations, patients, healthcare providers and communities. We also highlight how technology and access to information play a vital role in the ways that people understand, manage and receive care. The trends identified within this document and the examples used to bring them to life are inspired by innovation from around the globe.
In the second half of the report, PSFK features concepts generated by the world’s leading advertising and design agencies in reaction to trends found within the Future of Health report. The parameters for the solutions were set byUNICEF, and were imagined with emerging countries in mind. Specifically,UNICEF identified the key challenges faced by community health workers around the world.
Future of Health Report details 15 trends that will impact health and wellness around the world. Simple advances such as off-the-grid energy and the introduction of gaming into healthcare service offerings sit alongside more future-forward developments such as bio-medical printing. It is our hope that this report will inspire your thinking and lead to services, applications and technologies that will allow for more available, quality healthcare.
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