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The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.

The impact of climate change is becoming increasingly obvious around the world but different levels of the Canadian government are failing to respond cohesively. For example, the Harper government immediately cut several liberal-era environmental research programs and admitted that Canada has been moving away from Kyoto Protocol targets and that the Kyoto Protocol is not central to its idea of either good environmental or good energy policy. Meanwhile, a Quebec liberal government announced that it would introduce a carbon tax to reduce CO2 emissions by 10 million tons by 2012 while Canada's mayors introduced their own climate change initiatives, linking them to local infrastructure development. This second volume in the ISE series examines the reshaping of ISE policy in the context of multi-level governance and policy. Contributors examine climate change policy, innovation in the natural resources sector, the internet pharmacy trade, biotechnology policy and governance, provincial government renewable energy policies, the psychological and human nature connection with sustainable development policies, procurement policy and innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the commercialization of Canada's universities.

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 2,2, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, language: English, abstract: Table of contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Definitions and theoretical framework 3 a. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) 3 b. Globalization and China’s advantage 3 3. Economic growth of China 4 4. Reshaping of the business environment and implications for MNEs from the rise of China 5 5. Conclusion 7 6. List of references 8 1. Introduction Budgetary deficits and slowly growing economies are the main challenges of western governments and companies at the moment. The rise of China seems to save the western worlds bacon. The purpose of this essay is to highlight how the rise of China is reshaping the business environment for multinational enterprises (MNEs) and to define the impact on these companies. The paper will start by pointing out a short terminology and by considering the meaning of globalization for the rise of China. The rate of growth of China over the past years will be discussed on the followings. With the help of these facts it will be shown how the business environment for multinational enterprises has changed and in what way companies are affected.