Well-being: increasing our life expectancy and quality of life

Why is it important that we keep pushing for healthcare innovation and better life quality overall?
There is always some way to push for healthcare innovationThere is always some way to push for healthcare innovation
There is always some way to push for healthcare innovation

We have already made so many innovations in the world of healthcare: so why is it so important that we strive for further innovation in this sector? Time to take a closer look.

Healthier Lives

Life expectancy around the world is constantly rising due to the repeated effort of doctors and healthcare providers all around the world. While there were once many factors that could have led to an early death, there are more people reaching the later stages of life, and even living to be over 100 years old.

This is an incredible achievement and is indicative of a long and happy life. One of the means of extending life expectancy is by adopting a healthy diet, since we have advanced our knowledge of nutrition, and the more we learn the greater our longevity may be.

Disease Eradication

Smallpox is thus far the only human disease to be truly eradicated. However, there are many that could be gone before this century is out, thanks to the hard work of medical researchers and philanthropists funding the projects.

It can be through a simple operation – as can be found through transplants for corneal blindness as funded by figures like Tej Kohli – or it can be through the systematic changes of living environments – such as The Water Project’s goal to bring safe and clean water and sanitation to villages across sub-Saharan Africa. These repeated and continued efforts are all necessary parts of healthcare innovation.

Further Understanding

By researching one strand, we might be able to make discoveries about other areas of medicine that could change our understanding of medicine forever. Just remember, penicillin was discovered by accident, but it is an antibiotic that is still used today.

There are other areas where these leaps in research are important. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought research teams together from all specialities to try to unlock the secrets of the virus. Researchers in fields like malaria transmission have been working to find out how it spreads between others. With so many people all working together to beat something like this, it shows how much we can push our understanding and our knowledge.

It is only through repeated effort that we will see further innovation in the healthcare sector. We still have so much to learn, and all of it will go towards making us healthier and stronger individuals. Whether you are a graduate stepping into your first lab or just someone ordinary signing up for a fun run for charity, there is always some way to push for healthcare innovation. It is just as important now as it has ever been.