Former president Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, styled himself a champion of the poor during his 14 years in office, pouring billions of dollars of Venezuela's oil wealth into social programs. However, years of economic mismanagement left Venezuela ill-prepared during the government of Chavez’s...

After a long period of standstill, Uzbekistan’s President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, elected in 2016, has embarked on an ambitious course of reform aimed at turning the country into a democratic market economy and is putting a focus on regional and international cooperation. Looking to the future,...

E-commerce, and the digital transformation of the economy have supported and undergirded Southeast Asia’s impressive economic growth in recent years. The digital revolution has helped offset gale-force headwinds from the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, inflation, and supply chain imbroglios....

With around 117 million inhabitants, the Philippines is among the most populous countries in the world and one of the most dynamic economies in the East Asia-Pacific region. Characterized by a market and an economy fully immersed in the Asian boom, its average annual growth increased to 6.4% between...

As humans continue to pump more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, patterns of weather and water will change around the world. Droughts will become more common in some places, floods in others. Glaciers and snow will disappear in some areas, affecting the freshwater...

Like other aspects of psycho-physical well-being, mental health can be influenced by environmental, socio-economic, and evolutionary factors. Still today, unfortunately, stigma and discrimination are the main causes of marginalization of people with mental health disorders in schools, workplaces,...

Equity is a value in the Danish healthcare system, and healthcare is an important part of its welfare system, resulting in a heavily financed public funds system, experiencing little inequality. But most of all Denmark has, long before others, realized the need to rethink its health system, and has...

Poland’s healthcare system is keeping most citizens healthy, but there are further improvements necessary for the current system to increase efficiency and reach beyond-average higher standards of health....

Even if essential, antibiotics are not the only therapeutic solution to manage persistent infections. In fact, nature provides different solutions that science can make more specific and efficient....

PPE, A Never-Ending Market The anti-Covid vaccine is finally a reality. Effective, safe, and projected to save our next winter, the SARS CoV-2 virus has nonetheless led us to a complete re-modulation of our basic behaviors....

Bulgaria’s Key Challenge. Since its entry into the EU, notable progress in living standards and health indicators have been made. However, numerous issues are yet to be solved....

What About 5G? 5G technology is deploying fast but, to date, the scientific community is not yet sure of the consequences of electromagnetic pollution on humans, specially on the more sensitive, children, adolescents and the sick. Given that for ionizing...

Climate Change, a Public Health Emergency. There can be no discussion about climate change being the greatest challenge of the 21st century. As leading health experts have affirmed, the climate crisis is a threat to human health and development......

The history of Japan’s public health insurance system goes back more than a century and Japan has maintained its current world-class system, which is called a “Universal Health Insurance System”, for over 50 years of this history. Nevertheless......

Let in The Light. As temperatures are rising and summer is approaching, derma- tologists and other doctors warn about the dangerous effects of UV radiation....

It’s About Time to Log Off. WhatsApp, Social Networks, No Connection or no Gigas are the main causes of stress in the era of Facebook and Instragram. If once the sources of anxiety and worry were mostly caused by children, complicated romantic......

The Two Sides of Brazilian Healthcare. Despite its many problems, Brazil’s universal public health system repre- sents an enormous achievement for Brazilian society. Brazil has not only managed to significantly improve access to healthcare, especially a...

Air pollution. A Breath of Fresh Air. Clean air is a basic requirement of human health and well-being; however, air pollution continues to pose a significant threat to health worldwide and most of the disease burden is borne by the populations......

Depression, Let’s Talk. Sadness and grief are normal human emotions. We all have those feelings from time to time, but they usually go away within a few days. Major depression is something more. It’s a period of overwhelming sadness. It involves......

German Healthcare System According to the Euro health consumer index, which placed it in 7th position in its 2015 survey, Germany has long had the most restriction-free and consumer-oriented healthcare system in Europe, allowing patients to seek......

Access to Safe Drinking Water, Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Global Health How many people still drink dirty water or go to the toilet in the open?...

Protecting yourself is also about protecting others; yet, the memory of Europe’s success in eliminating polio and smallpox is unfortunately fading. Vaccination has become a victim of its own success and its importance has been increasingly......

I f you suffer from sleep apnea you’ll know that this form of sleep-disordered breathing can seriously affect your quality of life and impact your health if left untreated.......

Ageing and Health a Global Priority. Many countries - especially in the developed world - are now bracing themselves for the fact that their fastest-growing demographic is the over-80s....

Dubai's healthcare sector is constantly growing and it is offering significant opportunities for both medical investors and operators....

The Republic's reputation for dynamic development, political stability, low bureaucratic barriers, open dialogue with the government, a well-developed infrastructure and tax preferences are the major reasons to invest in Tatarstan....

Latin America and the Caribbean have led the developing world in shared prosperity achievements...

The Indian healthcare industry contributes to around 5% of GDP and employs 4 million people...

Infomedix presents a selection of Italian x-ray equipment manufacturers. Continuing a tradition of high quality design and production, these companies will be showcasing their novelties in the main international events......

Colombia may well be described as the country of diversity: both ethnically and geographically speaking, it presents a wide variety of cultural identities and landscapes....

India is the world's second most populous country, the seventh-largest by area, and the third-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is an astonishing mosaic of different geographic environments, climates, cultures, religions, languages and ethnic...

Turkey is located in the Anatolian peninsula, between southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, bordering with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Syria, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. The geographic p...

Mexico is the second largest economy in Latin America, and the 13th largest in the world. After over a decade of macroeconomic stability and an export-led recovery from the peak of the financial crisis in 2009, Mexico is currently enjoying positive......

Since 1986 the Vietnamese centrally planned economy has gradually shifted towards a socialist-oriented market economy with a series of political and economic reforms known as “Doi Moi”. The World Bank describes Vietnam as a “development succes...

Germany is EuropeÂ’s largest market for medical device manufacturing and the second exporter of medical technology worldwide with a share of 14.6% of the global trade volume, second only to the United States and well ahead of Japan with its 5.5% share....

According to "Industry Canada", the country's medical devices industry is valued at US billion, forecast to maintain 5-6% growth over the next few years, and reaching .6 billion by 2015....

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