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Global Healthcare in the 21st Century: Challenges, Innovations, and Pathways to Equity provides a compact, authoritative, and up-to-date analysis of healthcare systems across the world at a time of unprecedented medical, technological, and geopolitical change. Drawing on an extensive body of publicly available data, this book consolidates dispersed and often unwieldy information into a single, coherent global perspective. The book presents a comparative analysis of healthcare across 52 countries spanning all four World Bank income categories and representing 82% of the global population. It examines global population dynamics, epidemiological trends, and the pathophysiology of major disease groups, while highlighting persistent inequities in access, affordability, and quality of care. Equal emphasis is placed on therapeutic advances and preventive strategies, including vaccination and public health interventions. In addition, the book explores transformative innovations such as artificial intelligence in drug discovery, gene and stem cell therapies, transplantation medicine, and next-generation imaging. External forces shaping healthcare--climate change, armed conflict, pandemics, economic constraints, and recent political developments, including the impact of US health research policies--are critically assessed. Structured into four thematic parts, each chapter begins with key issues and concludes with actionable recommendations, making this a practical, "hands-on" resource. By identifying systemic gaps and proposing feasible countermeasures, this book serves as both a reference and a roadmap for improving healthcare equity in low-, middle-, and high-income countries alike.
