RIYADH: Healthcare needs to shift to a global model that targets preventing disease rather than treating it, a senior executive from the Saudi-funded Hevolution Foundation told Arab News.
The senior vice president of research of Hevolution, Princess Dr. Haya bint Khaled bin Bandar Al-Saud, spoke to Arab News at a presentation of its second Global Healthspan Report at the nonprofit’s headquarters in Riyadh’s KAFD on Wednesday.
“People have to be aware, healthcare has to change its way of thinking, because it’s a must,” she said. “We cannot be reactive anymore, we have to be proactive.
“And this has to start earlier in the education of health professionals, and third, someone needs to take this to the global agenda. The general public needs to know that this is a reality.”
Launching its report, Hevolution called for urgent global action to treat healthy aging as an economic imperative, where prevention, not disease, drives prosperity.
