PART I: The World's Health Care Crisis 1. 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.