Health care

Prachi Patkee and Adam Strange discuss what the rising threat of climate-driven communicable disease means for insurers

As quantifying climate risk exposure becomes increasingly important, Dan Gill, Rajinder Poonian and Alex Harding investigate the effect of rising temperatures on future mortality

Paul Dalziel talks to Alex Martin about the true purpose of economics and the lessons we can draw from the 2019 New Zealand wellbeing budget

Martijn Westra reports on a recent hackathon, which aimed to boost health outcomes and demonstrate the value of both data science and actuaries

Lisa Balboa and Tim Smith explore how innovation in life and health insurance can address the UK’s widening protection gap

Yafei (Patricia) Wang looks at the use of machine learning to predict underwriting decisions for life and health insurance

Mortality in England and Wales was around 5% higher in the second quarter of this year than during the corresponding three months of 2019, signalling a return of 'excess' deaths.

The Japanese government should do more to support older workers in the country, with almost half of the workforce set be aged 50 and over by 2035, a think thank has suggested.

Is machine learning a threat to the underwriting practice? Reza Hekmat and Balint Bone consider this possibility and its challenges

Lisa Balboa, Maryse Nashime, Serena Soong and Joe Wilson assess how data use could help to progress actuarial understanding of mental health