Saving Colombian Healthcare
The Colombian government must look at healthcare as a powerful source of economic growth.
The Colombian government must look at healthcare as a powerful source of economic growth.
El presidente Iván Duque prometió, en campaña, aumentar el gasto en salud para hacerle frente a los retos del sistema: envejecimiento poblacional, mayor prevalencia de enfermedades crónicas y persistentes déficits financieros que agravan una deuda acumulada de $8 billones.
As South Africa looks to the future, it can learn from its BRICS partners. China’s focus on innovation, while simultaneously addressing access to medicines, means it is far more in tune with the twenty first century.
The OECD risks weakening its brand by permitting accession of a country that does not fully respect basic market institutions such as intellectual property rights, writes Philip Stevens.
Following growing concern about the sustainability of healthcare systems, in the summer of 2016 EU Health Ministers invited the European Commission (EC) of the EU to review pharmaceutical innovation incentives.
Replacing patents with prizes to spur drug development is the idea of the moment. But this so-called “delinkage” won’t deliver the innovation and low-cost medicines claimed by its supporters, writes Philip Stevens.
Free trade has spread health technologies and knowledge around the world, write Philip Stevens and Nilanjan Banik.