Dessislava Dimitrova is Head of Healthcare Transformation at the World Economic Forum. Prior to the Forum, she served as Deputy Minister of Health and chair of the National Health Insurance Fund in Bulgaria where she managed the country’s health financing portfolio and led the pricing negotiations with provides.
Health expenditures are rising – but government funding has stalled, and personal spending is filling the gap. A June 2019 World Bank report, for example, found people in developing count...
An estimated 400 million people in the world lack access to basic health services, while millions are pushed into extreme poverty each year because of out-of-pocket healthcare costs. The ...
At least half the world’s population still do not have full coverage of essential health services.
More than nine billion people are anticipated to be living on the planet by 2050, with two billion above the age of 60. To address the challenges inherent in population growth on this sca...
There is an urgent need for emerging economies to invest in their healthcare systems. The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the 2015-2016 Zika epidemic in Latin America serve as...
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