Healthcare management

Covid-19 claimed millions of lives and damaged economies around the world, particularly in lower income countries. How can we build more resilient and equitable health systems to prepare for future global health threats? By Sarah Harrop.

Where you live and your ethnic and socio-economic background can have a big impact on your health and how long you are likely to live. We look at some of the ways in which these so-called health inequalities can be tackled on both local and worldwide scales.

From infectious disease threats to antimicrobial resistance, many global risks to human health are waiting in the wings. Global health security is an international approach to anticipate and prevent harm to people from these threats, whenever and wherever they occur. Sarah Harrop takes a closer look.

When discussing quality health care, the conversation typically focuses on doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who provide direct patient care and medical treatments. What’s often overlooked, though, is the invaluable role healthcare administration teams, and their processes, play in supporting.

Good healthcare management is a must for steering effective hospitals and successful healthcare organisations.

The conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age can often affect our health and wellbeing.

Investing in the health system not only saves and prolongs lives and makes people’s quality of life better.

According to statistics from the American Heart Association (AHA), approximately 18% of men and 23% of women over the age of 40 will die within one year of having a heart attack.