Healthcare systems for a better social world | Karl Lauterbach | TEDxRWTHAachen

Описание: This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Lauterbach talks about his scientific and political career that led him from high-tech medicine to medicine for the poorest of the poor. He talks about how social status and poverty can adversely affect the genetic setting of the youngest members of society, resulting in a life-long disadvantage and earlier death.

Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach is a German scientist and politician (SPD, Social Democratic Party of Germany). He is professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne. Karl Lauterbach joined the SPD in 2001. He made his entry to the Bundestag 2005. In the Bundestag he is a member of the committee on health politics. Lauterbach is a strong advocate of the so-called Bürgerversicherung, mainly favoured by the Social Democrats. This idea includes the reorganization of the German health system and the incorporation of all people and all income groups into the financing of health care system.

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