1.

Health equity

Key takeaways:

 While specific contributors to a country or region’s health inequities vary, many are shared – for
example, equal access to health care, culture traditions and perceptions, regulations and policies,
and consumer trust.
 COVID-19 advanced health equity initiatives by making health a political priority and health
equity part of the agenda.
 Waiting times for medical care
o One of the most critical measures of the quality of a country’s healthcare system is how
long patients have to wait to access medical care.

2. mental health

Key takeaways:

 Greater public awareness, increasing political attention, and growing emphasis on employer and
government involvement are providing unprecedented opportunities to amplify and act on
important access and health equity issues.
 More infrastructure and support mechanisms to deal with the increased demand for mental
health services
 Digital technologies have a great potential to transform global mental and behavioral health
systems to be more accessible, affordable, scalable, and fit-for-purpose.

3. Public health reimagined

 Public health systems face persistent clinical, financial, and technology challenges across the
service ecosystem – all exacerbated during the pandemic.
 COVID-19 ignited the growing recognition of the need to invest in population health.
Strengthening existing and establishing new models of collaboration across professional,
institutional, and organizational boundaries is critical to help improve healthcare
infrastructures.
 Digital technologies – from targeted applications to entire smart cities are playing an important
role in the transformation of public health systems amidst the global crisis.
 Health care systems will require to source investments and promote shared aims of prevention
and wellness for communities—a paradigm shift from the traditional emphasis on providing sick
care for individuals.
 It’s important to note that countries now have a more acute understanding of what a lack of
preparedness means for their health and prosperity.

4. Environmental, social and governance

Key takeaways:

 It is time for health care leaders and their organizations to extend the “do no harm” ethic to the
environment—to measure, manage, and set targets to reduce the sector’s carbon footprint to
combat climate change.
 As climate change’s influence continues to increase, health care leaders will need to build
resilience into their system’s infrastructure, supply chain and workforce to withstand natural
disasters such as floods, drought, fires, and storms.
 To minimize the future risk on human health, efforts must be directed at ensuring that health
care has the capacity and expertise to manage the influx of patients with respiratory,
cardiovascular, and other climate change-induced health issues.
 Every public and commercial health care entity has both an individual and a collective role to
play in accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy.
 Mitigating and adapting to climate change presents a global opportunity to remake the
foundations of health care and introduce new operational models for resilience and
sustainability.

5. Digital transformation and health care delivery model convergence

Key takeaways:

 Digital transformation is an essential step in preparing for a consumer-centric Future of Health

 Digital transformation can help individual healthcare organisations and the wider health
ecosystem to improve ways of working, expand access to services, and deliver a more effective
patient and clinician experience.
 Digital technologies will help construct and equip a “hospital without walls” that will blend
inpatient care with alternative models including community- and home based care.

6. Future of medical science

 Advances in medical science are being propelled by significant investment and research across
the public and private sectors – bringing new innovations to the masses, and driving more
predictive, preventative, personalized, and participatory medicine.
 Health care organizations are deploying data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual care
and other technologies to shift health care towards a future where medicine is more
personalized, enable real-time care interventions, and provide behavioral nudges.
 Vaccine developers are using a range of technologies—from the tried and tested to completely
novel ones such as mRNA—to prevent severity of the impact, hospitalization, and deaths.
 The high Research and Development (R&D) cost of new immunotherapies, digital medicine
products, and personalized medicine is a significant point of concern and places many promising
innovations beyond the reach of the poor and middle-class.