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Author: Future Agenda | https://www.futureagenda.org
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Another Green Revolution is required but today’s revolution must be different to overcome environmental, financial and societal constraints. It is no longer possible to use unlimited water and chemical inputs to increase production.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/second-green-revolution/
Global healthcare affordability will not come from the Unites States … but rather from those nations of the world that have little today and have no choice but to perform at the highest levels possible in the future.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/sources-of-global-solutions/
Globally healthcare is already well over a $6 trillion industry, but nearly 70% of the world population does not receive decent healthcare services. We need a revolution in order to service the en0re market.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/healthcare-for-all/
The implications for some are clear: we need a different healthcare model, we need technology to really deliver improvements at scale and at low cost and to start reducing the level of cover to a good proportion of some populations.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/entitlement-is-not-universal/
To stem the runaway costs of treating chronic diseases, multiple stakeholders collectively seek to halt key conditions: Remote monitoring, educational programmes and focused budgets are all integrated around common aims.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/collective-action-to-control-chronic-disease/
Budgetary pressures continue and reimbursement models will need to change. There is greater emphasis on paying healthcare providers based on measurable outcomes, rather than simply for the number of procedures they perform.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/incentives-in-flux/
With limited resources, rising demand and escalating costs, decoupling healthcare spend from economic growth is a global challenge. A more sustainable, integrated model may emerge from beyond the US/EU.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/sustainable-healthcare/
Business becomes more actively engaged in the wellbeing of its employees and society. Greater responsibility for health is incentivised by tax breaks and reimbursements designed to share risk, with lessons taken from elsewhere.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/shifting-risk-and-responsibility/
As the system comes under greater stress, old priori0es are rejected and an improved approach is adopted. Financial metrics are balanced with those better reflecting society’s values around happiness, health and well-being.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/shifting-values/
As more seek to live longer but die fast, making the most of the end of our lives is a growing concern. Being healthier for longer and needing to work longer combine to be economically and socially more active in later years.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/quality-end-of-life/
On a global scale, life expectancies in developed regions are continuing to rise in the 21st century and, although most people assume that there are biological limits on life span, so far there is little evidence that we are approaching them.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/lifespan-limits-3/
Building on the success of open courses, there will be a rise in non-linear education paths. Success will be re-defined to include self-actualisation and micro-badging will gain credibility. International benchmarks will emerge.
Permalink: https://www.futureagenda.org/insights/non-linear-education-paths/
