In the video you can meet:
Kigge Hvid, CEO, INDEX:
Frederik Wiedemann, cand.polit and Partner, ReD Associates
Jan Rose Skaksen, Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Henrik Føhns, Radio Host, Harddisken, DR, P1
Katherine Richardson, Associate Dean, Communication, University of Copenhagen
 

10 public service challenges

Health
More than 25% of Danes are overweight. Health issues related to overweight cost the Danish society 14,4 billion Danish kroner a year, e.g. in hospital admissions and workdays off due to sickness.
Politiken

Communication
40% of all health service complaints are about poor communication.
Bispebjerg Hospital

Care
In 2042, there will be 1,5 million elderly people in Denmark. That is 80% more than the current figure of 835,000.
Statistics Denmark

Exercise
Elderly people aged 64-84 run the greatest risk of getting diseases that regular exercise could otherwise prevent. Almost every other person in this age group can be characterised as inactive and about 85% of all deaths related to physical inactivity occur among 65-year-old persons.
National Board of Health

Preventive health
Only 1% of health sector expenditure is spent on preventive measures. Life-style related diseases and potentially preventable diseases are expected to account for 70% of diseases requiring treatment by 2020.
Physicians’ Test Centre

Education
More than one-fourth of all 26-year-olds have not completed vocational upper secondary education. The govern¬ment’s target for 2015 is that 95% of all young people must have completed vocational upper secondary education.
Economic Council of the Labour Movement

Employment
In 2020, Denmark will be short of 2,200 skilled workers while 38,000 unskilled workers cannot get a job.
Forecast from the Employment Region Copenhagen & Zealand, based on figures from Statistics Denmark

Mental working environment
Mental health problems cost Denmark about 55 billion Danish kroner annually; of this, 10% is spent on treatment.
The National Research Centre for the Working Environment

Exercise
If everyone exercised for just 30 minutes a day, the resulting additional working hours would be equal to about 13,700 full-time employees a year.
Copenhagen University Hospital

Transfer income
Today, 1,855,000 Danes receive transfer payments. In 2015 the number will surpass 2,000,000.
Forecast from CEPOS