Un nouveau mécanisme de financement à destination du secteur de santé gabonais et une réforme ambitieuse du système d’assurance maladie devraient permettre au gouvernement de procéder aux améliorations dont les services de santé ont grand besoin, et ce malgré des recettes pétrolières à la baisse.
Articles & Analysis | Enhancing facilities and promoting Sarawak as a destination for medical tourism from The Report: Sarawak 2015
The federal government is eager to see Malaysia unseat Singapore and Thailand to become South-east Asia’s premier health care tourism destination. This holds true not just for Kuala Lumpur and environs, but for Sarawak as well, as the state boasts many natural attractions to offer recuperating patients, at significantly lower costs than its...
Articles & Analysis | Sarawak makes efforts to boost access to health care from The Report: Sarawak 2015
In common with governments around the world, issues such as rising costs, demographic shifts, technological advances in care (and the expectations that come along with them), and delivering equitable health care to both a rural and an urban population are posing challenges to Sarawak’s health authorities.
Chapter | Health & Environment from The Report: Sarawak 2015
In common with governments around the world, issues such as rising costs, demographic shifts, technological advances in care and delivering equitable health care to both rural and urban populations are posing challenges to Sarawak’s health authorities. Of the state’s inhabitants, 44% were considered rural in 2013. Yet it has only one major public hospital, Sarawak General, located in the...
Articles & Analysis | The market for medical goods: Rules and regulations for health care equipment from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2014.
With the health care and pharmaceuticals sectors worth $18.3bn and $5.1bn in 2012 and 2013, respectively, according to reports from Alpen Capital, Saudi Arabia is a key target market for international businesses operating in both spheres. Statistics from the European Commission (EC), demonstrate the rapid growth in pharmaceutical exports from...
Articles & Analysis | Building up: New facilities fortify the health care infrastructure from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2014.
The public health sector has a budget of SR108bn ($28.8bn) for 2014, and across the country new medical facilities are being built. In the budget, the Saudi government announced that 16 new hospitals had been completed in 2013. Construction of another 132 facilities is already under way, and work will start on 11 new hospitals, two medical...