Entries by ignacioriesgo

7 days in healthcare (22-28 November, 2021)

  ABSTRACT From the international point of view, the most outstanding thing is the great impact produced by the new variant of COVID called “omicron” and which originated in South Africa. Both the stock markets and the price of oil have collapsed and countries have established measures on flights from those countries, which does not […]

7 days in healthcare (15-21 November, 2021)

  ABSTRACT From the international point of view, the plan of the American Democrats to negotiate the price of medicines and its possible impact on innovation continues to be discussed; Europe is once again the engine of the pandemic, with demonstrations in some European cities against confinements and COVID passport measures; and finally, the United […]

Which Country Has The World’s Best Health Care?

      The famous physician, health economist and bioethicist, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, has recently published a book (Public Affairs, New York, 2020) that tries to answer the famous question of what is the best healthcare system in the world. Obviously, after a long exploration, the answer is that there is no system that can […]

7 days in healthcare (8-14 November, 2021)

  ABSTRACT   From an international point of view, the appearance of two new drugs for COVID (Merck and Pfizer) is considered a milestone in the evolution of the pandemic. Both drugs are small molecule, easy to produce, and for oral use. The other great milestone of the pandemic was, at the time, the appearance […]

7 days in healthcare (1-7 november, 2021)

    ABSTRACT From an international point of view, to highlight something we knew: that WHO, in its current configuration, is not prepared for global health challenges. However, this finding is important in the article in the British Medical Journal by Anthony Costello. Europe, once again in the center of expansion of the pandemic. The […]

Challenges of the health systems of the 21st century

    On October 4, 2021, at the inauguration of the Diploma of Specialization in Health Management (26th edition), jointly organized by the University of Granada and the Andalusian School of Public Health, I had the opportunity and the honor to make a presentation on the challenges of health systems in the 21st century, with […]

Consenso on a healthcare system for the XXI century

  On October 29, 2020, this work was presented in an online session, due to the coronavirus pandemic, which was prepared by an independent work group and coordinated by Ignacio Riesgo. At a time when documents on the National Health System abound, it is difficult to justify a new report. This one that is presented […]

What’s happening with your healthcare system?

      The book What’s happening with your healthcare system (J. Sevilla, I. Riesgo, Editorial Profit, 2018) is an analysis of our health system, both public and private. It tries to dismantle the thesis that, after the cuts as a result of the economic crisis, a recovery in spending and a reversal of “privatizations” […]