Our Perspective

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  Understanding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – A Brief Overview

  By Annika Luckmann |June 25, 2021|English

  Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was first introduced into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychological Association in 1980. Since then, the diagnostic guidelines have been reviewed multiple times, and the understanding...

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  Occupation As a Risk Factor for Alcohol-Related Harm

  By Dr. Chris Ball and Jon Parker |June 10, 2021|English

  Alcohol use and misuse is of concern to insurers because alcohol-related illnesses represent a significant cause of claim. The latest report from the UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) described the highest levels of alcohol-related deaths in England...

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  COVID-19 - We Got the Shot. Now What?

  By Dr. John O’Brien |May 06, 2021|English

  Over the last year, the pandemic caused by the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus has devastated economies and resulted in tremendous individual suffering and loss of life. Fortunately, in the recent past effective vaccines and vaccination programs have resulted in control...

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  How Data Science Is Redefining the Medical Director’s Role

  By Dr. Thomas Ashley and Jean-Marc Fix |April 20, 2021|English

  Data analytics projects have become increasingly common across the insurance industry in the last few years and have really taken off in the Life sector. It’s a trend that requires the input of Medical Directors - and it gives the Directors a...

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• On the Trail of Long COVID

  By Megan A. Leivant|March 30, 2021|English

  A sense of optimism is growing around society’s recovery from the COVID‑19 pandemic, draped against a background of effective vaccine development and its widespread rollout. While clinicians have a better understanding of COVID‑19 disease, science...

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  Replacing Lost Data for Accelerated Underwriting of Life Insurance Applications

  By Jean-Marc Fix |March 15, 2021|English

  One of the hardest challenges Life insurers encounter when adopting accelerated underwriting (AU) is figuring out how to compensate for the loss of information previously derived from blood and urine tests. It’s been the case that insurance exams...

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