Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. Population aging becoming most important driver CVD epidemic. With rapid increase in an population, burden will continuously increase. Most old people also suffer multimorbidity, which strongly associated with impaired quality life, disability, dependence, and mortality. However, few reviews evaluated accompanied by populatio...

After describing the institutions for health care in China as they evolved since 1949, this paper presents statistical demand functions for health care. It applies the demand functions to explain the rapid increase in health care demand and the resulting rapid increase in price when supply failed to increase. The failure in increase in supply was traced to the system of public supply of healthc...

The US-Mexico border region has experienced rapid population growth during the past 30 years. Conservative estimates suggest that the population of this region will increase by 34% between 2000 and 2030; more liberal estimates indicate a 97% increase (1). This population growth has been influenced in part by increased industrialization and trade, resulting from government policies in Mexico and...