{"id":18704,"date":"2026-10-24T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/?p=18704"},"modified":"2026-10-24T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:25:40","slug":"miert-nem-keruljuk-el-azt-ami-elkerulheto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/miert-nem-keruljuk-el-azt-ami-elkerulheto\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t We Prevent What Can Be Prevented?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Hungary, as many as 16,000 people under the age of 75 died in 2023 alone from diseases and health conditions that could have been treated or prevented. At a time when the population is declining dramatically \u2013 last year, nearly 60% more people died in Hungary than were born \u2013 protecting the lives of the working-age population is also a key national economic interest. The roundtable discussion organised by the Demographics Section of the <strong>Hungarian Economic Association (HEA)<\/strong> will take place on <strong>Tuesday, 10 November 2026, at 2:00 p.m.<\/strong> at the HEA Community Space (Building B of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, 1053 Budapest, 10\u201312 Kecskem\u00e9ti Street, 4th floor, Room 403) and will be streamed on the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ay9d1smd9p8\">HEA YouTube channel<\/a><\/strong>. The discussion will explore why something that could be avoided seems inevitable in Hungarian healthcare, and how this situation could be changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The participants in the roundtable discussion will be <strong>Magdolna Dank<\/strong>, Director-General of the National Institute of Oncology, and <strong>L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Gul\u00e1csi<\/strong>, Professor at \u00d3buda University, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the board of the HEA Section of Health and Health Economics. The discussion will be moderated by <strong>Anita \u00c9l\u0151<\/strong>, a journalist at V\u00e1lasz Online and a member of the board of the HEA Demographics Section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discussion will be streamed live on the HEA YouTube channel via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ay9d1smd9p8\">this link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Attendance in person is free of charge, but advance registration is required due to the venue&#8217;s limited capacity. We kindly ask those interested in attending to register as soon as possible by emailing<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:mkt@mkt.hu\"><em>mkt@mkt.hu<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Hungary, as many as 16,000 people under the age of 75 died in 2023 alone from diseases and health conditions that could have been treated or prevented. At a time when the population is declining dramatically \u2013 last year, nearly 60% more people died in Hungary than were born \u2013 protecting the lives of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13835,"featured_media":18706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kozelgo-rendezvenyek"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18709,"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18704\/revisions\/18709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkt.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}