A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has detailed that preventative healthcare and technology are two factors that can help insurers to address the protection gap and drive better health outcomes.
The report, Health is our greatest wealth: How life & health insurers can drive better health outcomes and address the protection gap, highlighted a four-part plan for life and health insurers to improve health outcomes and address the protection gap. According to the UNEP Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (PSI) Life and Health Working Group, the first step of the plan is to offer protection products that are "suitable, affordable and accessible" by expanding cover for underrepresented groups and vulnerable groups in regions exposed to climate change risk. Climate change...
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