Preventative Healthcare Technologies - Trends 2016

Preventive healthcare is fast emerging as the most viable means to cut healthcare costs, making the market for preventive healthcare technologies and services a rapidly developing one.
With governments across the world now perceiving preventative healthcare as a viable means to curtail the burden of healthcare costs on their respective economies, the preventative healthcare technologies and services industry holds a positive outlook.

Recent reports by the World Health Organization have clearly indicated that chronic diseases are now responsible for an increasing number of deaths worldwide. In 2012, the following diseases and conditions were identified as the top three factors causing death worldwide: Ischaemic heart disease (7.4 million deaths), stroke (6.7 million deaths), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (3.1 million deaths). These figures turn the spotlight on preventative healthcare technologies and services. Technological advancement and improvement in prophylaxis techniques have been credited for advancing the state of preventative healthcare in recent years. This factor will thus act as the key stimulator for the global preventative healthcare technologies and services industry.