Health and Wellness Futures

• Healthcare systems of the future

  • National healthcare paradigms and systems – which will prevail?

  • Holistic, "underlying cause" emphasis or "silver bullet" approach?

  • The future of preventive care

  • The future of complementary and alternative medicine

  • Healthcare for seniors

  • Paradigm for purchasing healthcare (fee for service, managed healthcare plans, traditional Chinese system, or other)?

• Science and technology impacts on healthcare

  • Genome-based research and its implications

  • Impacts of IT

• Other
  • New business model for pharmaceutical and other healthcare investment
  • Cultural aspects of mental disorders (depending on behaviors that are valued in a particular society)
  • After cancer and cardiovascular disease are eliminated, what kills next?
  • The healthcare practitioner of the future – a knowledge worker, or not?
  • Impact of increased longevity on healthcare
  • Life expectancies – where will they be highest, and why?