How can Brunei Darussalam cope with the rising cost of health care provision while maintaining a high quality of service?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Dr Kenneth Y Y Kok, Medical Director, Brunei Cancer Centre from The Report: Brunei Darussalam 2014
Articles & Analysis | Non-communicable diseases are on the rise from The Report: Brunei Darussalam 2014
Although Brunei Darussalam's ongoing commitment to providing its citizens with high-quality universal health care has produced a robust public health care network, non-communicable diseases still pose a significant threat to the population. Cancer is far and away the country's primary cause of mortality, with 295 deaths recorded in 2013, according to the Department of...
Articles & Analysis | Maintaining high-quality universal care while expanding the role of the private sector from The Report: Brunei Darussalam 2014
Long a priority of Brunei Darussalam’s government, the domestic health care system continues to rank among the best in the region even as it shifts its priorities in response to a change in the health issues facing the local population. Having already tackled the problem of communicable diseases while instituting nationwide universal health services, which have...
Having already drastically reduced mortality rates and increased life expectancy by tackling the problem of communicable diseases and instituting nationwide universal health services, the Sultanate is now shifting its efforts towards combating non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Although Brunei Darussalam’s substantial hydrocarbons exports and relatively small...
Economic update | Health Matters in Qatar
24 Nov 2014
Recent news of the imminent opening of Hamad Medical City – a three-hospital complex re-purposing the 2006 Asian Games’ Athlete’s Village in Doha – was welcomed by many in Qatar’s public and private health services.
Indeed, extra, capacity is something health planners and professionals have been after for some time, with the country’s hospitals and clinics facing growing demand –...
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