For employees, the future of healthcare benefits – not just in the U.S. but all around the world – is very much up in the air. With Healthcare Reform a reality in the U.S. –…
What A Changing Healthcare Reality Means For Business Travelers
Comparative Health Care
Buyers Beware: Patients Can Face Sky-high Costs outside the U.S.
In sharp contrast to conventional wisdom, there are a number of places outside the U.S. where the cost of medical care can be higher than for the same care at home. In my role as Medical…
Important New Angle on Happiness Index: How Much Do We Suffer on Life’s Last Lap?
A recent post on the Wall Street Journal’s Health Blog by Katherine Hobson brought to light a fascinating new study on the Quality of Death around the world. The Singapore-based philanthropic Lien Foundation commissioned the…
The World’s Blood Supply — How Safe Is It?
While most were unaware of it, June 14th was “World Blood Donor Day”, celebrated internationally to encourage those eligible to donate blood at least once a year. Indeed, although 95% of Americans either receive blood…
Eyes Wide Shut? Know Your Destination’s Human Rights Record
We’ve linked tolerance with health in the past. Now the unexpected outburst of ethnic violence in the Kyrgyz Republic is a vivid reminder of how tenuous the grip we humans have on tolerance, dignity, survival…
The Gender Gap Around the World: Implications for Health and Happiness?
One of our previous posts speculated that tolerance may be key to health and happiness based on a comparative study of states in the U.S. That line of thinking prompted us to look for comparative…
Urban Air Around the World: An Overview
If we apply the air quality standard for particulates adopted by the European Union (20 micrograms per cubic meter), urban air pollution is nearly ubiquitous around the world. Of course, air pollution levels vary widely….
Healthy Destinations: Tolerance Also a Key Indicator
Previous posts have highlighted happiness, the velocity of life, ethics and environmental factors as important characteristics of healthy destinations. Now a new analysis of Gallup poll data by researchers at Cambridge University isolates another key…
Healthcare Reform
For many reasons, health insurers in the U.S. have been reluctant to jump on the medical tourism bandwagon. They are concerned about taking business away from doctors and hospitals already resentful of payment rates virtually…
What’s Holding Back Happiness In Russia?
If you are a regular reader, you know we’ve been hunting for happiness. But sometimes on our travels, if we look closely, we gain insights into deeply rooted cultural sources of unhappiness. We recently introduced…
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