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Preventative Screenings Everyone Should Know About

 Being enrolled in preventive checkups is one of the most important things you can do to stay healthy. Screening tests are medical tests that identify cancer in its earliest stages, when the disease is easier to treat. Screenings may depend on age, and the most advisable ones generally require annual screening due to the fear of the disease beginning to manifest. Health screenings are necessary for people of all ages; the recommended tests vary according to individual needs. Talking with your Sanitas primary care physician about your medical history, lifestyle, and any changes will allow you to determine which health checkup is best for you. Having medical tests once a year is essential. In addition to medical diagnoses, they are useful for detecting diseases that only manifest as symptoms in advanced stages, where clinical care is more expensive in advance and for which a comprehensive solution is more difficult to achieve. That's why it's so important to do these checkup...

Rethinking Productivity for Better Health

 The Dominican Republic (DR), along with Chile, is one of the economies with the strongest growth in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade and a half. However, maintaining this dynamic growth in the future and extending its benefits to more households and areas living in poverty will need to be sustained by greater productive growth through reforms in human capital, competitiveness, innovation, public spending efficiency, and resilience to natural disasters, according to a new World Bank report.

The report, "Rethinking Productivity to Generate Growth Without Leaving Anyone Behind: Dominican Economic Memorandum," warns that the Dominican Republic has achieved an average economic growth rate of 5.8 percent per year between 2005 and 2019, twice the average for Latin America and the Caribbean (2.6 percent). But the engines of this astonishing growth are exhausted due to low productivity growth in recent years, due to a lack of human resources to meet the demands of the business sector, diminished by climate-related disasters and disruptions in key markets, such as the uneconomic allocation of tax exemptions.

Cultivating a Collaborative and Balanced Workplace

“The model that has created so many social and economic benefits for the country can be revitalized to transform into a more dynamic, equitable, and alternative growth model that continues to narrow income gaps, especially those of women, and that provides better jobs and more opportunities for more households, families, and regions in the country,” said Alexandra Valerio, World Bank Resident Representative in the Dominican Republic. "I use these findings to confirm that we are on the right path to developing reforms for the Dominican Republic's economic transformation that benefit everyone," he added.

The structural reforms formulated in the report to incentivize productivity growth focus on: Human capital: first, adapting the education system to market demands, modernizing secondary education, continuing adult education, and expanding job market-relevant skills training and updating programs, among other solutions. All of this has two fundamental objectives First, once and for all, equalizing opportunities between genders and between rural and urban areas, with incentives for parents to share early supplementary care, monitoring school dropout rates, and granting university scholarships in rural areas, among others.

Rethinking Stress and Workload

Competitiveness Promoting competitiveness by reducing barriers to business entry and expansion in strategic economic sectors (including reviewing government participation in state-owned enterprises or other roles in complex public regulations), leveraging the one-stop shop for processing applications to lower costs. Barriers to entry for companies, sectoral protection packages for established companies, production and export quotas, and price controls, among others.

Improvements in the efficiency of public spending and the tax system an increase in the efficiency of public spending on education, for example, could contribute to an improvement in the quality of human capital and a better fit between higher education and business needs. Regarding taxation, the government wants tax exemptions and a broadening of the tax base to remain priorities. Greater resilience to external shocks and climate events creating fiscal risk strategies to reduce budgetary uncertainty implementing greening programs for public institutions, and flexible.

Embracing Calm and Prioritising People

Mitigation packages to offset the temporary adjustment costs of decarbonization at the regional, regional, and domestic levels. This report investigated the recent passive economic growth of the Dominican Republic from macroeconomic, sectoral, and microeconomic gaps. The report evaluated the country's economic growth performance alongside that of businesses. It also analyzed the competitive environment of the Dominican market and sought opportunities for the country to create fiscal space to implement much-needed public investments,” said Gabriel Zaourak, World Bank Country Manager for the Dominican Republic.

Incentives for innovation: technological support services, strengthening management capacities, development of basic infrastructure necessary for innovation, and subsidies for small and medium-sized businesses, which, unlike others, have not benefited from tax incentives. Public health and productivity are also closely linked for strong, relevant reasons: healthy people perform better at school and at work. Good health is one of the most important factors in reducing absenteeism, giving people a stronger and better start to their activities. Focusing on health is about productivity.

Conclusion

During the Second Health Innovation Week, which AMIIF is organizing in Mexico City on April 4, 5, 6, and 7, topics of utmost relevance to the country will be discussed. Evidence of the links between these two pillars of national importance health and productivity will be presented. Recommendations for actions to promote health will be provided based on strengthening these sectors through innovation, science and technology, and support for talent. The productive sector is closely linked to the health sector.

It is essential to avoid budget cuts through adequate and more efficient resource protection to promote continuous improvement of health services in Mexico. Therefore, to avoid prolonging the disease, break that link. This is reflected in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per hour worked, which is one of the most severely affected productivity indicators. To highlight the impact of absenteeism, in 2014, 9,128,694 days of subsidized benefits for work-related accidents and occupational diseases were covered by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). 25,010 years of work! And that's just a third of the economically active population.

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