Healthcare Overview: New Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Global Process of Personalisation in Medicine – New Perspectives in Healthcare....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Italian Healthcare System in the Global Context: The Cultural Challenge of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine....Pages 7-29
Healthcare in the UK – Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine Perspective at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 31-44
The German Healthcare System....Pages 45-67
Healthcare Overview in the Slovak Republic and Implementation of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine....Pages 69-93
An Overview of the Healthcare System in the Czech Republic with Respect to Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine....Pages 95-110
Perpetual Transitions in Romanian Healthcare....Pages 111-131
An Overview of the Healthcare System in Georgia....Pages 133-152
A General Overview of the Healthcare System in the Republic of Macedonia: Health Indicators, Organization of Healthcare System and Its Challenges....Pages 153-166
Overview of the Healthcare System in Turkey....Pages 167-187
Taiwan’s Healthcare Report....Pages 189-232
Mobility of Medical Doctors as an Attribute of the Cross-Border Healthcare: Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives....Pages 233-244
Where Is the European Pharma Industry Going?....Pages 245-248
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Changing Long-Held Beliefs Is Never Easy: A Proposal for Multimodal Approaches in Female Healthcare – An Integrative View....Pages 251-268
A Gender-Specific Nutritional Approach to Women’s Healthcare....Pages 269-305
Implications of Gender Based Biology in Oral Health Issues – Are Women More Susceptible?....Pages 307-312
Simultaneous Systematic Approach to Enable Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine – Women Healthcare as a Case Study....Pages 313-331
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Widening the Paradigm in Medicine and Health: Person-Centred Medicine as the Common Ground of Traditional, Complementary, Alternative and Non-Conventional Medicine....Pages 335-353
Music Therapy, a Personalised Bridge Towards Healing Beyond Surgery and Medication: European Paediatrics Overview....Pages 355-374
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Characterization and Validation of Biomarkers by Immunoassays: Quality Requirements, Physical Standards and Data Management in Predictive Medicine....Pages 377-396
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Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, and Financial Viability of Personalized Medicine: A Role for Comparative Effectiveness Research?....Pages 399-413
The Economic Challenge of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine: The Case Study of Lung, Head and Neck Cancer....Pages 415-421
Health Promotion and Prevention in Companies – Economic Aspects and Prevention Strategies for Shift Work Sleep Disorders....Pages 423-467
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New Ethical Paradigm in Preventive, Predictive and Personalised Medicine....Pages 471-484
Back Matter....Pages 485-521