Investment in health care companies can be a good bet over the long term for a number of reasons, particularly in certain sectors within health care. Investment in other health care sectors is much riskier. This article briefly overviews investment considerations for several different sectors within health care.

isotopic and nuclear techniques play an important role in food and agriculture, health and industry. in the agricultural sciences and food technology sectors, recent research has elucidated the new potential application of radiation for microbial decontamination, food preservation, improve the nutritional quality of  foods  and effectively utilise its potential as human food or animal feed. the...

Our health is impacted by many sectors. The improvement of population health and productivity requires a broad understanding of human ecology and the social determinants of our health. Influencing change across many sectors requires a level of expertise that is currently missing from Pacific health systems -- policy advocacy. National health promotion councils or coordinating bodies need to wor...

The computer gaming industry has created powerful technologies in visualization, computation, networking, and social interaction. These applications were created as a form of entertainment, but their integration into the larger user experience of the Internet and Web has brought them to the attention of a number of industries beyond entertainment. This attention and the early successes of sever...

The editing software used by the Economic Census offers a variety of imputation options, many of which employ statistical models. In prior censuses, the services sectors portion of the Economic Census has relied on industry average imputation as its primary statistical imputation model. This ratio imputation method uses weighted least squares estimates for no-intercept simple linear regression ...

The carbon emission of China’s industry accounts for more than 70% of the total in the nation, thus the implementation of carbon emission quota trading in industry is of great importance to realize China’s national carbon emission reduction targets. Meanwhile, the allocation of carbon emission quota among sectors or enterprises proves the first and critical step. For this reason, this paper con...

Latecomer sectors in late-industrializing economies follow different patterns in their development and growth processes, which largely determine the share acquired from the global value chain. The development and growth process of the sectors are generally argued to be the result of the interaction of a macro-level specific institutional context (e.g., system of intellectual property rights, la...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: after conducting a study on shift work and its related health problems in a petrochemical company and recommending a new shift system, the company changed its shift schedule from 12-hour to 8-hour pattern. after a year of implementing this new system, the present study was carried out to evaluate the effects of...

AIM This paper provides a critical overview a decade after the New Zealand Government announced its intention to formally incorporate a public health approach into its comprehensive revision of gambling legislation. METHOD The initial enthusiasm and the subsequent disillusionment with this approach are tracked. Four reasons for its lack of success are examined. FINDINGS The New Zealand expe...