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Healthcare and pharma
The Pharma & Healthcare industry is of vital importance for human and economic development, providing a wide range of goods and services relevant to the promotion of health at all stages in the healthcare process – from prevention and treatment to rehabilitation and palliative care. It is one of the fastest-growing industries, supported by profound demographic changes, the rising incidence of non-communicable diseases, and surging per capita health spending in both developed and emerging markets. The industry is also one of the major innovators, with increasing expenditures on development of new molecules, biotechnology and adoption of new technologies that provide advanced healthcare and ensure the longevity of the population.
The Pharma & Healthcare industry comprises the manufacture of pharmaceuticals for human and veterinary use, medical equipment and related supplies. It also includes providers of ambulatory health services, medical and diagnostic laboratories, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.
In the context of Latin America, Chile is not a particularly large pharmaceutical and healthcare market as its population is relatively small and healthy in terms of incidence of communicable diseases. However, the country’s changing ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic underlined the inefficiencies of the Brazilian pharmaceutical and healthcare sector. In drug manufacturing, many pharmaceutical companies took a hit in profitability. They struggled to meet demand as global supply chains were ...
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Latin America was among the hardest-hit regions by the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel coronavirus entered the region at a bad time. The commodities boom at end of the 2000s combined with several local crises afterwards have hurt badly the public ...
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Colombia was the fourth-largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America in terms of sales volume in 2019, with a large and growing population, a universal but underfunded social security health insurance system, and a small but rapidly ...
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Brazil was one of the hardest-hit nations by the COVID-19 pandemic on a global scale, ranking among the top three countries with the highest number of cases and deaths from the novel coronavirus. Brazil’s pharmaceutical industry, ...
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Mexico is the second-largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America, after Brazil, with retail drug sales of USD 7.3bn in 2019. The country has a growing and ageing population, multiple but underfunded state-run health insurance systems, ...
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Argentina is the third-largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America, with retail drug sales of USD 4.7bn in 2019. The country has a large and ageing population, a relatively developed public health system, and a small but consolidated ...
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