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Research Outline
Prepared for Juan | Delivered September 16, 2019
Healthcare Outlook - Genes, Environment, and Lifestyle
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Goals
Determine the factors that will impact healthcare costs in the future. The information will be used for a presentation.
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Early Findings
GLOBAL HEALTHCARE OUTLOOK
LIFE EXPECTANCY AND POPULATION GROWTH
50%
of the surge in healthcare costs comes from increases in medical services amount.
The two main drivers of the rise in healthcare spending are "population growth (
23%
) and population aging (
12%
).
CHRONIC DISEASES
Diabetes is seen to be the main disease that can grately
impact healthcare spending
.
Currently, the treatment cost for this disease already reached
$44.4 billion
out of the $64.4 billion spending increase to deal with this illness.
Other diseases that currently have the largest spending increases are the following: low-back and neck pain -
$57.2 billion
; high-blood pressure - $46.6 billion; and high cholesterol - $41.9 billion.
The
greying population
, increase in the spread of chronic illnesess, innovations in expensive technology, and others are seen to increase healthcare spending in the future.
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