Description: A look at the Alzheimer’s Disease epidemic — demographics, diagnostic testing, risks, research and where to find support.

Description: A new initiative, Commercial Health Care: What’s Next, will focus on education and research for health actuaries regarding issues that remain with the ACA.

Description: Industry briefings and SOA news

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Experience on group and individual disability insurance has been historically sensitive to economic and demographic trends. In recent years, for example, the restructuring of the health care industry has caused major upheaval for many disability for many disability insurers. The panelists in this session speak in general terms about a variety of trends, such as the stock market, unemployment rates, interest rates, and the aging of the baby boom generation. They then turn specifically to the disability insurance market and speculate on how these trends may affect financial results.

Description: Introduction to population health, a collaborative discipline that seeks to leverage all the determinants of health personal behaviors, medical care and the public health infrastructure, as well as the social and economic context at the community and national level to maximize the health of populations.

Description: Update on Health Section activities 2012-2013.

Description: Article Description * A review of Critical Illness products in the market and product design and pricing considerations.

Description: Review of 2015 from perspective of the Health Section