How to Improve Global Health? Focus on Chronic Disease. - WSJ.com: By LAURA LANDRO
When it comes to addressing health care, the debate in the U.S. is just a drop in the global bucket. The developing world is facing a host of health-care challenges—whose economic effects reach all the way to America's shores.
The Wall Street Journal's Laura Landro moderated the task-force discussion on global health.
Here are edited excerpts of the presentation of their priorities to the CEO Council.
Not Just a Moral Issue
MS. LANDRO: Global health is not just a moral and ethical issue that we should be interested in, but also a leading driver of economic growth and productivity or the lack thereof. The Global Health Initiative at the World Economic Forum recently changed its focus from infectious to noncommunicable diseases. As George Halvorson from Kaiser-Permanente will explain, that came to the top of our list of recommendations.
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