Health care

While the digital world is often blamed for poor mental health, some areas aim to improve it. Members of the IFoA Mental Health Working Party explain how digital mental health tools help to support insurers and their customers

No longer in fear of a revolution, traditional life and health companies can work alongside insurtechs for mutually beneficial results, say Tim Smith, Patrick KosmÜtzky and Lisa Balboa

With recent A&E waiting times historically high, Stuart McDonald and Natalie Tikhonovsky ask: is this causing additional deaths?

Since his seminal review into health inequality more than a decade ago, the UK has only got worse. Sir Michael Marmot tells Richard Purcell how insurers can help to reverse the backsliding, and why a universal state pension age isn’t a great idea

As we settle into 2023, what’s on the cards for UK insurers and reinsurers, after a year of ‘permacrisis’? Ruolin Wang assembled four industry professionals to discuss the six main spin-off challenges. Where might be the wins? What might be the best strategies?

Like being on an NHS list, we’re still waiting… When are the government’s delayed social care reforms going to be implemented, asks Tom Kenny? And, more importantly, will they actually help?

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