Expanding gender, ethnic and sociocultural diversity

A person who was previously a passive recipient of medical services can become an active participant in their treatment, making informed decisions and sharing responsibility with their doctor. By giving informed consent to care, the patient can understand the possibilities and risks involved. This increases their personal interest in following the doctor's recommendations, and it also increases the effectiveness of the therapy. The shift towards this new model of medical care is in the spotlight of the new issue of trendletters, produced as part of a joint project of the Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center and the UNESCO Futures Studies Chair (UNESCO Futures Literacy Chairs network).

For reference: This series of trendsetters continues the practice of publishing reviews of global technological trends since 2014 and presents a unique database of global trends and challenges in the field of human development. This research of the HSE ISSEK is based on the results of iFORA Big Data System, the Delphi survey (with the participation of more than 400 leading foreign and Russian scientists), expert sessions and interviews.

Along with the increased attention of people to their health, the popularity of wearable electronic devices is growing, which in real time allow non-invasive monitoring of vital signs of the body. It is expected that by 2027, more than 470 million people will use wearable medical devices (in 2021 – 360 million people).

The volume of educational content on medical topics is growing, which allows people to get more up-to-date information about their health and various clinical cases, medications, etc. There are more and more applications with self-observation diaries, blogs about healthy lifestyle, services that help to adhere to the necessary sleep regime, medication, etc.

The rise in popularity of open online courses of high quality medical and healthy lifestyle topics for non-specialists partly helps people understand the abundance of often contradictory information on the Internet.

The new issue of trendletter (Russian version) is available at the link.

Previous issues of trendletters can be found here.