Program Activities in House of Sweden

The next theme in the program series will be the spring theme
"Health & Care" during March 25 - June 6, 2010 with focus on the health sector.

Health care issues, including biomedical research, are very high up on the U.S. agenda and are likely to remain there in the foreseeable future. There are efforts to streamline the care, cut costs (currently U.S. health care is approximately 16-18 percent of GDP - compared with about 8 percent in Sweden) and increase competition. The U.S. administration has signaled that it is interested in new technologies such as Health IT that could contribute to an increased efficiency of health care. Sweden and Europe have many interesting solutions to the problems that the Americans are trying to solve while the knowledge and expertise in the U.S. creates a foundation for interesting and fruitful transatlantic discussions and exchanges.

The theme will focus on "sustainable health care", such as cost-effective systems capable of today’s, and also future, challenges (demographic trends, emerging diseases, etc.). Health & Care will include seminars, debates, expert workshops, performances, exhibitions, music and hands-on demonstrations. Policy, research, trade promotion, and culture are all areas that will be presented. Topics to be discussed are, to mention just a few, antibiotic resistance, e-health, obesity, neglected diseases, translational medicine and public health.

More details on exhibits and events during the theme will be available shortly.

Previous themes at House of Sweden during the period
October 2006 – December 2009:

> Architecture & Design
> Cars & Transportation
> Water & Environment
> Children First
> Innovation & Technology
> Discover Sweden
> Voices in a Changing World
> Living Green
> Sweden's EU Presidency