Qatar Region
Medium HALE and Life Expectancy
Medium Gap between HALE and Life Expectancy
Final Longevity Progressiveness Ranking: #11
Final Longevity Progressiveness Score: 0.689
Practical Recommendation Summary: The government should focus on improvement of nutritions and promotion of healthy lifestyle, also pay attention to improvement of healthcare services and their accessibility to all income groups.
Practical Recommendations (Full):
● Creation of the patient-centered model of service delivery. Patients health should be the most valuable asset for the government.
● Utilizing the Artificial intelligence and Machine learning for simplifying the healthcare experience. Artificial intelligence is the advanced technology that can reduce time and money spent on treatments through the intensive processing of the medication for patients with even more outstanding results. Machine learning is the additional tool for simplifying treatments with the help of progressive equipment supplied to the net of hospitals and clinics throughout Qatar.
● Modifying the behavioural risk factors that sharpen most common non-communicable diseases. If to look through the analyses of the health status and medical systems of developed countries the strong correlation between the wrong lifestyles and arising of the CDVs can be pointed out. Practically quarter of burden of chronic conditions is caused by the tobacco and alcohol use, bad dietary habits and low physical activity, so there is a crucial task for government to initiate campaigns aimed to reduce the negative impact of these risks on the health status of the population.
● Adoption of the P4 clinics for the on time delivery of the preventive care. Most deaths in Qatar generally can be avoided and are caused by diseases that are treatable in case of early diagnostics and efficient medications. This points out the need in P4 medicine when every person can receive individual healthcare.
● Reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health at individual and population level. Behavioural risk factors tend to be more common among people at a disadvantage because of a lesser education or lower income.
● Tackle environmental problems. It is known that air pollution has adverse effects on health and human life in general. The most Qatari GHG emissions is caused by energy consumption, it is very important to examine how one can reduce the GHG emissions to better improve the air quality without harming economic growth.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths:
● The healthcare system is available to both Qataris and expatriates. Qatar has a public health service that provides free or highly subsidized healthcare.
● 19 million USD has been dedicated to biotechnology research with the creation of Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP).
● The World Health Organization (WHO) recently ranked Qatar at the top of the per capita health expenditure list among the Gulf Cooperative Council.
● There are now currently 36 hospitals and numerous clinics in Doha, the capital city. Health centers have also been set-up along the highways for ease of access.
Weaknesses:
● The proportion of healthcare spending by the private sector has been steadily rising since 2003 from 17% to 22.55% in 2010.
● Medicine is heavily subsidized. For instance, a course of antibiotics for a government pharmacy costs 1.5 US dollar.
● There is need for more medical workers in primary health care.
● 69% of mortalities occur from chronic conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases (24%), cancer (18%) and diabetes (7%).
● 70.1% of Qatari adults are overweight that is the additional burden of cardiovascular diseases on the health status of the population.
Opportunities:
● The Qatari government is aimed to improve the healthcare through developing state of the art medical facilities and medical education.
● The Supreme Council is focusing on health reform by the development of medical insurance, electronic record keeping and data collection, and improvements in quality assurance and evidence based medicine at its various hospitals.
● Complex reformation of the healthcare system to receive the outcomes that will allow to meet needs of the existing and future generations.
Threats:
● 43.9% of Qatari adults have low levels of physical activity that creates the challenge for the effective engagement of population in sports.
● 88% of Qatari children have dental caries that is the problem of weak preventive care in this healthcare’s sector.
● Air pollution in Qatar vastly exceeds safe limits and is damaging the health of the population. Qatar has the second highest levels of PM2.5 particles in the world, behind Saudi Arabia.
SWOT Conclusions
Strengths Analysis:
● Seventy-seven percent of current healthcare expenditures are in the public sector.
● eHealth is currently widely used by the Qatari healthcare as the government hopes to develop a system that allows good data collection, quik processing and generation useful insight.
● Qatari government uses the healthcare system vision that assumes the building of the patient-centered healthcare system which main figure is population’s health and well-being.
● Life expectancy for Qataris is 80.4 years and as of July 2017 less than 2% of the population are 65 years or older.
● At 65 years, women are expected to live a further 20.3 years, 14.3 of which are healthy. At 65 years, men are expected to a live a further 18.7 years, of which 13.5 are healthy.
Weaknesses Analysis:
● There are relatively high levels of tobacco use among men that are 31.9% and children that are 13-15 years old ( 15.7%).
● Approximately 16% of patients with more than one chronic disease were readmitted at the emergency department within 28 days of discharge.
● Approximately 6% of total emergency admissions were patients with more than one chronic condition.
● Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer are the three top causes of mortality, accounting for 24%, 17%, and 9% respectively.
● Qatar is experiencing trends in aging similar to that of other developed countries and the proportion of older people is expected to grow.
● Qatar’s polluted air is harmful for residents’ health. Doha had the 12th highest average levels (93 ug/m3) of PM2.5 of all world cities. The town of Al Wakrah to the south ranked 25th on the same list (85 ug/m3).
Medium Gap between HALE and Life Expectancy
Final Longevity Progressiveness Ranking: #11
Final Longevity Progressiveness Score: 0.689
Practical Recommendation Summary: The government should focus on improvement of nutritions and promotion of healthy lifestyle, also pay attention to improvement of healthcare services and their accessibility to all income groups.
Practical Recommendations (Full):
● Creation of the patient-centered model of service delivery. Patients health should be the most valuable asset for the government.
● Utilizing the Artificial intelligence and Machine learning for simplifying the healthcare experience. Artificial intelligence is the advanced technology that can reduce time and money spent on treatments through the intensive processing of the medication for patients with even more outstanding results. Machine learning is the additional tool for simplifying treatments with the help of progressive equipment supplied to the net of hospitals and clinics throughout Qatar.
● Modifying the behavioural risk factors that sharpen most common non-communicable diseases. If to look through the analyses of the health status and medical systems of developed countries the strong correlation between the wrong lifestyles and arising of the CDVs can be pointed out. Practically quarter of burden of chronic conditions is caused by the tobacco and alcohol use, bad dietary habits and low physical activity, so there is a crucial task for government to initiate campaigns aimed to reduce the negative impact of these risks on the health status of the population.
● Adoption of the P4 clinics for the on time delivery of the preventive care. Most deaths in Qatar generally can be avoided and are caused by diseases that are treatable in case of early diagnostics and efficient medications. This points out the need in P4 medicine when every person can receive individual healthcare.
● Reduce socioeconomic inequalities in health at individual and population level. Behavioural risk factors tend to be more common among people at a disadvantage because of a lesser education or lower income.
● Tackle environmental problems. It is known that air pollution has adverse effects on health and human life in general. The most Qatari GHG emissions is caused by energy consumption, it is very important to examine how one can reduce the GHG emissions to better improve the air quality without harming economic growth.
SWOT Analysis
Strengths:
● The healthcare system is available to both Qataris and expatriates. Qatar has a public health service that provides free or highly subsidized healthcare.
● 19 million USD has been dedicated to biotechnology research with the creation of Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP).
● The World Health Organization (WHO) recently ranked Qatar at the top of the per capita health expenditure list among the Gulf Cooperative Council.
● There are now currently 36 hospitals and numerous clinics in Doha, the capital city. Health centers have also been set-up along the highways for ease of access.
Weaknesses:
● The proportion of healthcare spending by the private sector has been steadily rising since 2003 from 17% to 22.55% in 2010.
● Medicine is heavily subsidized. For instance, a course of antibiotics for a government pharmacy costs 1.5 US dollar.
● There is need for more medical workers in primary health care.
● 69% of mortalities occur from chronic conditions, particularly cardiovascular diseases (24%), cancer (18%) and diabetes (7%).
● 70.1% of Qatari adults are overweight that is the additional burden of cardiovascular diseases on the health status of the population.
Opportunities:
● The Qatari government is aimed to improve the healthcare through developing state of the art medical facilities and medical education.
● The Supreme Council is focusing on health reform by the development of medical insurance, electronic record keeping and data collection, and improvements in quality assurance and evidence based medicine at its various hospitals.
● Complex reformation of the healthcare system to receive the outcomes that will allow to meet needs of the existing and future generations.
Threats:
● 43.9% of Qatari adults have low levels of physical activity that creates the challenge for the effective engagement of population in sports.
● 88% of Qatari children have dental caries that is the problem of weak preventive care in this healthcare’s sector.
● Air pollution in Qatar vastly exceeds safe limits and is damaging the health of the population. Qatar has the second highest levels of PM2.5 particles in the world, behind Saudi Arabia.
SWOT Conclusions
Strengths Analysis:
● Seventy-seven percent of current healthcare expenditures are in the public sector.
● eHealth is currently widely used by the Qatari healthcare as the government hopes to develop a system that allows good data collection, quik processing and generation useful insight.
● Qatari government uses the healthcare system vision that assumes the building of the patient-centered healthcare system which main figure is population’s health and well-being.
● Life expectancy for Qataris is 80.4 years and as of July 2017 less than 2% of the population are 65 years or older.
● At 65 years, women are expected to live a further 20.3 years, 14.3 of which are healthy. At 65 years, men are expected to a live a further 18.7 years, of which 13.5 are healthy.
Weaknesses Analysis:
● There are relatively high levels of tobacco use among men that are 31.9% and children that are 13-15 years old ( 15.7%).
● Approximately 16% of patients with more than one chronic disease were readmitted at the emergency department within 28 days of discharge.
● Approximately 6% of total emergency admissions were patients with more than one chronic condition.
● Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer are the three top causes of mortality, accounting for 24%, 17%, and 9% respectively.
● Qatar is experiencing trends in aging similar to that of other developed countries and the proportion of older people is expected to grow.
● Qatar’s polluted air is harmful for residents’ health. Doha had the 12th highest average levels (93 ug/m3) of PM2.5 of all world cities. The town of Al Wakrah to the south ranked 25th on the same list (85 ug/m3).