Insights on healthcare, policy, and society — where human well-being meets politics and economics.
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Key Takeaways • Health data is becoming a prerequisite for access, not just a record of care. • Data inequality is emerging as the next major health inequality cause worldwide. • Not all “unmeasured” people are the same, and that distinction matters. • The future of healthcare depends on building a fair and trustworthy
health-society
Key Takeaways • Digital health systems promise choice but increasingly deliver curation. • Algorithms, insurance tiers and actuarial models shape care options long before patients see them. • These models can improve efficiency and access but can also create quiet forms of coercion. • Restoring real choice requires new forms of visibility into data,
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Key Takeaways * Gamification can drive motivation — or dependency. * The same psychological levers that build healthy habits can also exploit them. * AI-powered gamification amplifies both potential and risk. * Ethical design requires transparency, purpose, and limits. The Game We Didn’t Know We Were Playing Step counts. Streaks. Badges. Leaderboards. Health apps
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Key Takeaways * What we call personalization in digital health often masks predictive control. * The line between helpful nudges and behavioral manipulation is vanishingly thin. * Algorithms optimize for engagement, not autonomy, turning users into data-driven subjects. * True empowerment demands transparency, consent, and collaboration between users, clinicians, and AI systems. When Help
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Key Takeaways * Health apps excel at keeping us clicking, not necessarily getting us healthier. * Engagement ≠ transformation: activity in an app rarely equals lasting behaviour change. * The real problem is misaligned incentives, products optimize for usage, not outcomes. * True digital health impact requires aligning design, data, and rewards with real change.
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3 Key Takeaways * Supply chains are fragmenting and healthcare is no exception. * Energy, defense, and biotech are the new power plays. * Emerging markets aren’t collapsing, instead they’re repositioning. Geopolitics isn’t noise, it is the market Wars, sanctions, and shifting alliances redraw the global map of opportunity faster