According to the World Health Organization, existing healthcare systems are not designed to respond to ageing and older people. There must be a fundamental shift in the w...
Falling vaccination rates throughout Europe are leading to an increase in infections such as measles and rubella and Europe fears new epidemics. Measles viruses, for inst...
A safe, reliable, affordable and easily accessible water supply is essential for good health. Globally, people of many nations—or high income regions within nations—now e...
Germany has the world’s oldest national social health insurance system, with origins dating back to Otto von Bismarck’s social legislation, which included the Health Insu...
Do you feel sad, empty and hopeless most of the day, nearly every day? Have you lost interest or pleasure in your hobbies or being with friends and family? Are you having...
Air pollution is a major problem affecting everyone in developed and developing countries alike, which has a serious toxicological impact on human health and the environm...
Economic Profile - As of late 2010, Brazil’s economy is the largest of Latin America, the second largest in the Americas (after the U.S.) and among the ten largest in the...
For some time now, we’ve been living in a state of perennial connection, which leads us to think of always having to be attentive and ready for an immediate response. But...
Japan, located in Northeast Asia, is an archipelago set between the Sea of Japan to the west and the Pacif Ocean to the east. It shares no contiguous land borders with an...