Uppsala arranges health summit
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Uppsala Health Summit will be a meeting place for policy makers and opinion makers in academia, healthcare and industry. The first summit opens its doors June 3-4, 2014 and the theme will be “Healthcare in an Aging World.”
The initiator is the World Class Uppsala network together with Uppsala University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala County Council and Uppsala municipality.
“Researchers, businesses, governments and healthcare professionals contribute every day to the development of medical knowledge. “We want to create better conditions to take advantage of research findings, ideas and products for better health through dialogue between researchers, businesses, politicians and opinion-makers,” says Anders Malmberg, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University and chairman of the steering committee of the Uppsala Health Summit.
The theme of the meeting in 2014 is aging and health from a social perspective. What happens now when the proportion of people over 65 is increasing in large parts of the world? In 2012, Sweden together with Japan, Italy and Germany had the highest dependency ratio in the world, with only three people of working age per person over 65.
“We are living longer and are healthier, but demographic development still means increased pressure on health and social care with increasing costs. This will be highlighted during the meeting from several different perspectives,” says project manager Madeleine Neil.
Annica Hulth