In our current time we face many challenges in health care due to new and emerging infectious diseases, changing disease patterns, demographic changes, rising costs of healthcare and globalisation. At the same time, new scientific developments result in innovative products and services, such as novel pharmaceuticals, neurotechnologies and telemedicine. Ideally, the scientific developments would be able to address the current challenges successfully. However, reality sometimes proves otherwise: technical innovations are not taken up by patient groups, vaccination programs are unable to reach proper vaccination levels and societal movements halt further scientific developments.
With this minor you’ll investigate underlying causes for these undesirable outcomes and think about strategies to create a better match between the needs in healthcare and developments in biomedical and health sciences.
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