Health Behaviors and Status Decision Support Database focuses on the habitual indicators, as well as on major transplants and surgeries performed across countries and occupational injuries involved in different sectors. Measurements in this DSD help to make a comparative study on the risk factors associated with different disease conditions across ...

The global economic slowdown affected almost every nation across the globe, though, the impact varied from country to country. The article discusses the healthcare system, current healthcare related issues and recent health sector initiatives in five developed nations, namely the United States, Japan, Germany, France and United Kingdom. In addition...

Though most countries were affected by the current economic slowdown, the impact varied from country to country. The article looks into the affect of slowdown in six emerging countries, namely Brazil, Russia, China, India, Mexico and Poland and covers the highlights of economic stimulus measures adopted by these countries. The article also provides...

Globally, nations are experiencing a decline in population growth rate accompanied by fall in mortality rate, increase in life expectancy and improvement in health condition. However, these trends have resulted in an increase in percent of aged people in the total population or an Aging Society. The segment gives an overview of the common demogra...

Expiring patents on revenue generating drugs, competition from generic drugs and increasing research and development cost, is forcing pharmaceutical manufacturers to often outsource drug discovery processes. Over the years pharmaceutical outsourcing has moved up the value chain from non core functions to even core functions. The segment gives an ov...

Over the last two decades, Mexico has transformed itself into an investment and export-led economy through a series of reforms. Healthcare spending in Mexico is anticipated to increase by a considerable margin during the forecast period, because of the rising popularity of the healthcare sector, the growing aging population, the growing health cons...

Key healthcare indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality rate have shown signs of improvement. The standard and quality of healthcare services have improved and become more accessible for patients. The Government has initiated healthcare programs called telemedicine and e-Health in an attempt to develop the country's healthcare infrastru...

One of the major challenges that Mexico has been facing is to extend the healthcare services and to trim down the inequalities in the level of healthcare. In order to overcome this situation, the government has introduced Seguro Popular, primarily with the intention of enhancing healthcare insurance coverage and increasing the available healthcare ...

This study enumerates the factors like the trends in the political, business and government policies as well as macro economic indicators that play a prominent role in shaping the United States healthcare industry during 1999 to 2004. The research provides forecasts from 2005 through 2008 with 2004 as base year.