2022 Global Health Care Outlook Are we ?nally seeing the long-promised transformation?2022 Global Health Care Outlook | Are we ?nally seeing the long-promised transformation? Contents Overview and outlook 3 Global health care sector issues in 2022 Health equity 5 14 20 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Mental health & well-being Digital transformation and health care delivery model convergence 26 Future of medical science Public health reimagined Contacts 30 37 43 47 Endnotes 22022 Global Health Care Outlook | Are we ?nally seeing the long-promised transformation? Overview and outlook Is the long-awaited seismic shift in health care ?nally here? A collision of forces—a global pandemic of historic proportions; exponential advances in medical science; an explosion of digital technologies, data access, and analytics; informed and empowered consumers; and a movement from disease care to prevention and well-being—proving to be the catalyst for the clinical, ?nancial, and operational transformation that health care has long promised to the world. 2022 marks the second full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it continues to dominate health systems’ atten