Healthcare Overview

1. Global Process of Personalisation in Medicine – New Perspectives in Healthcare
Vincenzo Costigliola

2. Italian Healthcare System in the Global Context: The Cultural Challenge of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine
Guglielmo M. Trovato, Francesco Basile

3. Healthcare in the UK – Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine Perspective at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Konstantina Grosios, Peter B. Gahan, Jane Burbidge

4. The German Healthcare System
Andrea Döring, Friedemann Paul

5. Healthcare Overview in the Slovak Republic and Implementation of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine
Marko Kapalla, Dagmar Kapallová, Ladislav Turecký

6. An Overview of the Healthcare System in the Czech Republic with Respect to Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine
Judita Kinkorová, Ondřej Topolčan

7. Perpetual Transitions in Romanian Healthcare
Luiza Spiru, Răzvan Ioan Traşcu, Ileana Turcu, Mircea Mărzan

8. An Overview of the Healthcare System in Georgia
Tamari Rukhadze

9. A General Overview of the Healthcare System in the Republic of Macedonia: Health Indicators, Organization of Healthcare System and Its Challenges
Nikola Kamcev, Marina Danilova, Verica Ivanovska, Gordana Kamceva, Nevenka Velickova, Kneginja Richter

10. Overview of the Healthcare System in Turkey
Munis Dundar, Sevda Yesim Ozdemir

11. Taiwan’s Healthcare Report
Willie Sai Ho Chan

12. Mobility of Medical Doctors as an Attribute of the Cross-Border Healthcare: Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives
Vincenzo Costigliola

13. Where Is the European Pharma Industry Going?
Michele Antonelli

14. Changing Long-Held Beliefs Is Never Easy: A Proposal for Multimodal Approaches in Female Healthcare – An Integrative View
Olga Golubnitschaja

15. A Gender-Specific Nutritional Approach to Women’s Healthcare
Niva Shapira

16. Implications of Gender Based Biology in Oral Health Issues – Are Women More Susceptible?
Ranjitha Krishna, Connie Drisko

17. Simultaneous Systematic Approach to Enable Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine – Women Healthcare as a Case Study
Mira Marcus-Kalish, Hamutal Meiri

18. Widening the Paradigm in Medicine and Health: Person-Centred Medicine as the Common Ground of Traditional, Complementary, Alternative and Non-Conventional Medicine
Paolo Roberti Sarsina, Mauro Alivia, Paola Guadagni

19. Music Therapy, a Personalised Bridge Towards Healing Beyond Surgery and Medication: European Paediatrics Overview
Reiner Haus

20. Characterization and Validation of Biomarkers by Immunoassays: Quality Requirements, Physical Standards and Data Management in Predictive Medicine
Thomas Waerner, Jochen Urthaler, Kurt Krapfenbauer

21. Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, and Financial Viability of Personalized Medicine: A Role for Comparative Effectiveness Research?
Paul M. Brown

22. The Economic Challenge of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine: The Case Study of Lung, Head and Neck Cancer
Andrea Kugler, Chiara Kertu, Kurt Krapfenbauer

23. Health Promotion and Prevention in Companies – Economic Aspects and Prevention Strategies for Shift Work Sleep Disorders
Kneginja Richter, Guenter Niklewski

24. New Ethical Paradigm in Preventive, Predictive and Personalised Medicine
Eugenijus Gefenas, Asta Cekanauskaite, Egle Tuzaite, Vilius Dranseika, Dainius Characiejus

Avainsanat: Biomedicine, Biomedicine general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Public Health