DHSC 21 December 2018
- The report concludes that there are reasons to be optimistic but that greater effort to improve the health environment is required – it should be easier to take the healthy option.
- There are 4 main sections in the report, discussing:
- health as the nation’s primary asset
- the health environment we live in and build together
- using emerging technologies to improve health for everyone
- effective planning for the future
- Chapter 1 Chief Medical Officer’s summary
- Chapter 2 Health and economic outcomes
- Chapter 3 The local health environment (Health Foundation)
- Chapter 4 Social health
- Chapter 5 How will health be experienced in 2040?
- Chapter 6 Demography
- Chapter 7 Multimorbidity
- Special section – Mental health disorder
- Chapter 8 Changing behaviour for a healthier population
- Chapter 9 Health inequalities – a challenge to current health policy
- Chapter 10 Machine learning for individualised medicine
- Chapter 11 Emerging technologies – population scale impacts
- Chapter 12 Emerging technologies in healthcare (Deep Mind)
- Chapter 13 Data, technology, trust and fairness
- Chapter 14 Embracing uncertainty: futures thinking in action
- Chapter 15 Forecasts for health in 2040 ( Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation)
