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Issue 7

The partners in McKinsey's Healthcare Payors & Providers Practice have two objectives in Health International: first, to help improve healthcare systems in Europe while innovating to make them more affordable; and second, to convey ideas and initiate discussions—and most important, actions—that promote excellence in healthcare, Europe's leading industry. This article introduces issue 7 of Health International, a publication devoted to providing management know-how for the health care industry.


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Articles

Healthcare century

This article notes that over the past 50 years, spending on healthcare has consistently outpaced economic growth. It then outlines what could happen if that trend persists.

The healthcare industry: A stock market perspective

This article presents the results of a new McKinsey study, which reveals (among other things) that performance in the healthcare industry is driven by return on invested capital as well as growth.

What's working in healthcare reform

This article describes how seven reforms that address supply and demand in the healthcare market may help to curb ever increasing spending.

Improving clinical outcomes

This article explains that today’s hospitals don’t need to wait for healthcare reform to improve clinical outcomes. Three proven strategies can be used to increase quality of care now.

Management matters

This article explains that National Health Service (NHS) hospitals have made significant strides but still face many challenges. Stronger clinical leadership and better talent management can help them further improve their performance.

Service line management

This article explains that by treating clinical departments as business units, hospitals can transform their approach to management—and achieve considerable clinical, operational, and financial results.

Healthier future for India

India must improve its healthcare system to realize its economic potential. The problems facing the system are large—but not intractable if business, government, and civil society work together to solve them.

Africa's workforce crisis

Millions of people across sub-Saharan Africa suffer needlessly because they cannot obtain medical care from trained workers. Fully 820,000 additional doctors and nurses are needed to provide the region with even the most basic health services. The money to hire, train, and sustain such an increase won't be available in the foreseeable future. Even if funding materialized, 600 additional medical and nursing schools would be needed to fill the gap, and it would take more than two decades to train the requisite number of professionals.

High noon in the "Wild East"

This article notes that generics manufacturers have prospered in Central and Eastern European markets of late, but the regulatory landscape is changing. Companies must take action if they are to stay ahead of the competition.

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