The World’s Health Care Crisis: Geopolitical and Climate Change Challenges focuses on the global health care crisis, providing information on new challenges the world is experiencing, such as COVID-19, massive world migration, overpopulation, threats of global famine, nuclear war, the emergence of new infectious diseases around the planet, climate change, and their effects on health care. The book's target audience includes professionals of health systems, biomedical innovation, and global health supply chains investors and Directors in Chief, decision-makers in public health, multilateral institutions in regulatory, legislative, and executive areas, researchers, health sciences students, health economists, economist associations, pharmaco-economists, historians, and more.
Table of Contents
PART I: The World’s Health Care Crisis1. Introduction: Health Care and Health Care Crisis
2. The Health Care Crisis in the Industrialized World
3. Health Care in the Developing World and Emergent Economies
PART II: The Biopharmaceutical Industry and Its Challenges
4. The Pharmaceutical Industry Globally
5. Understanding Research and Development and Marketing in a Biopharmaceutical Company
6. The Pharmaceutical Regulators and the Process of Drug Approval
PART III: Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Innovation
7. The Academia-Industry Relationship
8. Innovation at the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries
9. Global Investments in Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Innovation
PART IV: A World of Inequalities
10. Global health care disparities
11. Social Responsibility, Governmental Role, and Non-Governmental Organizations
PART V: Change and Tribulation
12. Demographic Impact on Global Health Care
13. The Effect of Climate Change on Global Health Care
14. Global Infectious Diseases
15. Time of Geopolitical Changes and Polarization
PART VI: Navigating the World’s Health Care Crisis
16. Ageing Population and Pension Systems
17. Health Care Access Crisis
18. Prevention, International Economic Development, Life-style Changes and New Strategies
19. The Future of Science, Medicine, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Global Health Care