According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Japan holds the record for having the world’s longest life expectancy – at close to 90 years. The country also has one of the world’s lowest child mortality rates, indicated by WHO statistics: ‘For every 1,000 babies of both sexes born in Japan, 996 will make it past their fifth birthday [...]

 
Medical tourism is brought about by the following factors: increasing healthcare prices in North America and Europe, long waiting period in the national health system of some western European countries, improved medical technology in developing countries, ease and affordability of international travel, competitive healthcare prices in developing countries, and fun and relaxation in an exotic [...]

Categorized as an export product, medical tourism is basically marketed to people in the First World countries who are not insured or people who cannot afford private healthcare in the US. The phenomenon of medical tourism is conservatively projected to grow to $40 billion by 2010. 
Outsourcing of healthcare becomes an attractive alternative because non-First World [...]

Singapore has a world-renowned and well-established healthcare and medical system. The World Health Organization (WHO) has ranked the country’s healthcare as one of the world’s current best. As far back as 2000, the WHO ranked Singapore’s healthcare system as the best in Asia and sixth best in the world. The Political and Economic Risk Consultancy [...]

The term preexisting condition has always had a negative connotation because it prevents an ordinary citizen from availing timely and appropriate health insurance coverage or making him or her pay a hefty cost when coverage is acquired. Each insurance company can have its own arbitrary list of pre-existing conditions that can be excluded from the [...]

Workplace wellness has both been a discernible trend and business imperative for beneficial reasons as corporations have pleasantly discovered. “A study released by the American Institute for Preventive Medicine found 62 percent of all companies — ranging from small to medium and large — offer some type of wellness program. While five years ago wellness [...]