Entries by ignacioriesgo

7 days in healthcare (January 17-23, 2022)

  SUMMARY From an international point of view, the article published in The Lancet should be highlighted, in which mortality due to antimicrobial resistance, one of the most important causes of death in the world, is analyzed at a global level. Also the demand of the British Medical Journal that the scientific community have access […]

7 days in healthcare (January 10-16, 2022)

  SUMMARY From the international point of view, several issues stand out. In the first place, the agreement of the French Assembly taken on Sunday, January 16, to prevent the access of the unvaccinated to leisure and restaurant premises; also Quebec’s initiative to introduce special taxes on the unvaccinated; the WHO’s opinion that it is […]

7 days in healthcare (January 3-9, 2022)

  SUMMARY From an international point of view, perhaps the most striking thing is the great global expansion of COVID, particularly of the “omicron” variant, with a record number of infections in the United States, of more than one million a day. As for national news, official policy continues to trust everything to vaccination, avoiding […]

Trends in healthcare 2022

    See PDF Deloitte document: 2022 Global Health Outlook, Deloitte See PDF Forbes predictions (Anita Gupta) The Future Of Health Three Healthcare Trends For 2022 See PDF Capgemini document: Top-Trends-in-Healthcare-2022 La clave para el desafío de 2022 que la COVID potencia – Project Syndicate: La clave para los desafíos de 2022 que la COVID […]

Analysis of the Health Accounts System 2019

        See PDF of the article: Cuentas Sistema de Salud 2019. See PDF of the commented article: SCSprincipalesResultados For the seventh consecutive year, a great feat, Julio Villalobos, friend, manager and health analyst, presents us with an analysis of health spending in Spain, based on consolidated expenditures published by the Ministry of […]

Ten lessons for a post-pandemic world

  In 2020, the same year as the COVID-19 pandemic, Fareed Zakaria, a well-known CNN journalist and Washington Post columnist, published the book Ten Lessons for a Post-pandemic World. Nothing replaces reading it. Therefore, these lines are only intended to encourage you to do so and enter its pages. The “bat” effect In this introduction […]

7 days in healthcare (December 27, 2021-January 2, 2022)

    SUMMARY   From an international point of view, to highlight the 50th anniversary of “Médecins sans Frontières”; also the impressive success of vaccines that saved hundreds of thousands of lives globally; the great expansion of COVID by the “omicron” variant, which is leading to the record of infections in many countries; as well […]

2021: a year in review in medicine and healthcare

    In the number corresponding to December 18, 2021, The Lancet publishes an article written by Farhat Yaqub, which considers 10 events in medicine and healthcare in 2021. These events are: The pandemic of the Covid-19 From January 1 to December 10, 2021, there were 3.3 million killed by Covid-19, more than in all […]

7 days in healthcare (December 20-26, 2021)

    Summary From an international point of view, possibly the most interesting is the summary of the year 2021 by The Lancet; also the studies that seem to show that the “omicron” variant is not only more contagious (which was already known), but that it produces a milder form of disease; the NEJM analyzes […]