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

