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In depth

A decade for healthy ageing

Life expectancy in the world has increased as has the number of elderly people, an evolution that means challenges, along with economic and social opportunities.

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Mutual societies, a key partner for global healthcare

Over 80% of civil servants choose private healthcare, which looks after 1.8 million public workers in Spain with a cost that is 33% less.

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Climate change and its effects on health

The climate emergency has some important direct consequences on people’s health. There are many diseases that get worse every year and new ones appear that result in important economic and public health problems. The warning is…

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A story through the ages

Medicine is as old as mankind and artists have reflected its history in sculptures, paintings, engravings, novels and chronicles about important pandemics.

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Ethics for healthcare in the 21st century

The pandemic has shown the system’s weaknesses that must be analysed from an ethical point of view in order to up-date notions such as equality, solidarity and allegiance regarding certain techniques.