Healthcare

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 due to government initiatives despite of cardiovascular, cancer and several other diseases continuous to be an obstacle for the growth. Off late, Brazil has become an attractive destination for medical tourism due to its low-cost, high-quality s...

After the fall of Japans economy in the late 90s, the country experienced stagnation for a long time. However, its economy began to revive since 2003. In 2007, it had the worlds second-largest economy after the United States. In 2007, the country continued to experience economic growth, though at a sluggish rate. The strong economic growth in the...

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 ...

The Brazilian Governments healthcare reforms of the nineties and its long-term commitment to improve the healthcare situation in the country, has benefited the country and the healthcare industry. Currently, the government is focused on increasing the accessibility of essential drugs in the country. In addition, the government tries to ensure that...

The Japanese healthcare industry is the second largest in the world after the United States, and account for 10.0 percent of the worlds market. The success of this industry has been mainly due to the Japanese Governments supportive role through favorable polices and funds.The Japanese drug market is opening up for foreign investors with the separ...

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...

Strong economic growth and increasing public healthcare expenditure has contributed to the growth of healthcare industry in South Korea. The Government is currently focusing on upgrading the healthcare centres, increase the number of healthcare facilities and training programs for doctors. These are expected to result in increased coverage of heal...

Healthcare indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality rate, and death rate have shown improvement in the last decade in India. This improvement may be attributed to the countrys economic and social transformation, up gradation of the standard and quality of medical services and its greater accessibility to the patients. This Country Indu...