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Universal healthcare adoption in Asia: Are Life Sciences companies late to the game?
Universal healthcare adoption in Asia: Are Life Sciences companies late to the game?
The United Nations (UN) has set a goal to achieve “Health for All” by 2030 and while 193 countries have signed up to it, more than one billion people still lack access to basic healthcare. If every country without universal health coverage (UHC) is to increase their health spending per capita to the average OECD levels by 2030, it would mean total global health spending will have to increase by 400% or an additional US$27 trillion over today’s budgets. Such investment is clearly beyond the means of low- and middle-income countries but, according to Dr. Mark Britnell, KPMG Global Head of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare, “we can’t go back on the aspirations of UHC. It’s too difficult for governments to say they don’t believe in UHC”.
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