Healthy Societies

Perspective Digital Health: The Next Chapter

Digital technologies are transforming healthcare, just as they have reshaped many other industries. As these technologies further advance and converge, they make new use cases feasible – applications that can improve health at individual and societal levels, across access, quality, and cost dimensions.

Journal Digital Health Compendium

Transformative technologies are opening up opportunities for improved health outcomes, healthcare access, and healthcare costs

Infographic Telemedicine Is Here To Stay

Digital health has had a good pandemic. People flocked to telemedicine and well-being apps during waves of outbreaks and lockdowns: for example, in the US, virtual consultations as a proportion of total outpatient visits spiked from less than 0.01 percent before the pandemic to 69 percent in mid-April 2020, before subsiding to 21 percent in July.

Perspective AI Will Enable Personalized, Proactive, And Smarter Care

AI will enable care that is more personalized, proactive, and smarter than ever before – abating acute events through early, accurate detection. Veering from treatment to prevention will disrupt traditional business models.

Perspective Digital Tools Promise Much for Mental Health — But They Are Not a Panacea

COVID-19 is taking its toll on mental health worldwide. The ongoing health and economic crises are causing enormous loss, change and uncertainty and disrupting support networks and essential services.

Perspective How Will AI Affect Gender Gaps in Health Care?

Data in medicine skews male. Over 25 years after a law that mandated the inclusion of women in biomedical research, clinical practice continues to rely on evidence collected mostly from men and assumed to represent the other half of humanity.

Perspective The Digital Therapeutics Race Begins

Digital therapeutics are among healthcare’s most innovative developments, with great potential to alter how care is delivered, both amidst a pandemic and beyond. 

Perspective Can the Insurance Industry Bridge the Pandemic Insurance Protection Gap?

The right public-private solution can help bend the risk curve.

Perspective Workplace Mental Well-Being: What the World Can Learn From Latin America

Mental ill health is not only a societal issue, but also one with critical importance for workplaces.

Perspective Address Ergonomic Problems Before Remote Work Becomes a Costly Risk

Now is the time to help your employees reduce the risk of injuries.

Perspective The Digital Frontier of Health Promotion and Prevention

Post COVID-19 opportunities

Perspective Climate Change Significantly Impacts Global Health

Climate change will be the most significant force impacting global health. Impacts will arrive gradually, then suddenly. The healthcare industry may not respond in time.

Webtool Climate Health Threat Illustrator

Climate change is increasing health risks and costs for people and businesses worldwide — and its effects will intensify over time. Disease burden and disparities are likely to worsen, and 2 out of 3 major cities expect climate change to seriously compromise their public health assets and services.

Report Global Risks Report 2021

COVID-19 has exacerbated ongoing geopolitical and societal challenges, and the existential crisis of climate change looms large. More innovative and collaborative approaches to resilience are needed more than ever.

Perspective How to Spot When Employees Are Struggling, and How to Plan for a Healthier Workforce

Employers have a duty of care to support their workforce

Perspective Addressing Poverty to Solve the Healthcare Crisis

Tackling the impacts of poverty can prevent disease and provide the stability children need to grow up healthy and resilient