New Business Paradigms for Delivering Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Economic metrics argue that now is the time to act. In low- and middle- income countries (LMICs), higher demand for health care services, particularly for managing chronic noncommunicable diseases such as hypertension, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and neurodegenerative conditions, is driven by two key factors: overall population growth—largely the result of past high fertility—and population aging, which is caused by declining fertility rates and increasing life expectancy.