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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
See PDF of the article: Sanidad: «cogobernanza» sin gobernanza Article published in “La Razón” on December, 24, 2021. During the pandemic, the use of the term “co-governance” was generalized. Regardless of the use of this concept to justify the inhibition of the central government in certain decisions, the truth is that the idea has […]
PDF of the article: Healthcare spending 2020 USA.pdf In the latest issue of Health Affairs (January, 2022), the figures for healthcare spending in the USA in 2020 are published. The growth was 9.7% over the previous year, which had grown by 4.3%. The acceleration is due to the increase in federal spending, which […]
Summary From an international point of view, perhaps the most striking thing is the great growth worldwide of the “omicron” variant, already present in 89 countries. Although it is clear that it is much more transmissible than the Delta variant, it is not clear that the disease is milder. Some countries in Europe decree confinements. […]
See PDF of the report: 2021_GHSindexFullReport_Final See PDF of the New York Times article: The World Is Unprepared for the Next Pandemic, Report Says – The New York Times In December 2021, the 2021 Global Health Security Index was made public, a kind of ranking in terms of the preparation of countries […]
See PDF of the article: nejmp2115048 In a recent issue of N Engl J Med (December 2, 2021), the subject of Medicare dental coverage, currently excluded, and the many attempts to introduce it are discussed. The article mentions that in 1958 the American Medical Association, the American Dental Association and […]
