and practices today. Of the nearly 2.1 million adult men and women imprisoned in the United States, roughly 70% are persons of color (Minton, 2012). Within the criminal justice system, people of color are imprisoned disproportionately due to racist laws, are denied access to the rehabilitative options given to Whites, and are harassed and mistreated by U.S. agencies. Although people of
PFIZER INC. BUSINESS ANALYSIS AND STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY Pfizer Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company that creates and manufactures products for both humans and animals. Pfizer is headquartered in New York City and employs about 115,000 people. PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Pfizer currently has ten different divisions and promotes thirty-one different major products. The divisions and largest major products within each group are: Cardiovascular and Metabolic
Executive Summary The drone age is coming per Galeotti . It has been estimated that annual spending on drones around the world will almost double to $11.4 billion by 2022. New technology has been driven by the military, and drones are critical to military operations. Due to changing times, drone use is rapidly adjusting to commercial use by civilians. This drone revolution has massive implications, ranging from legal and moral to economic and geopolitical. It will be a deeply disruptive technology
International Trade Administration The International Trade Administration (ITA) has as its mission the creation of economic opportunity for U.S. workers and firms by promoting international trade, opening foreign markets, ensuring compliance with trade laws and agreements, and supporting U.S. commercial interests at home and abroad. To learn more about the ITA, write to: International Trade Administration, Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, or visit the ITA’s
the Social Security Act (Title XIX) included the regulations and implementation standards for Medicaid. Medicaid is a federal program that was established in 1965 under the Title XIX law. This law detailed and described the roles of both the federal and state government in the administration of Medicaid. Federal laws outlined the overall components of the program with mandated and optional inclusions: payment limits, beneficiary eligibility requirements, amount of coverage for medical services and
According to the Clinical Leadership & Management Review, (2008) healthcare spending is currently taking up 16.2 percent of our nation’s economy. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, cost is expected to rise to twenty percent by 2015. Nearly, seventy percent of medical decisions are based on laboratory tests, yet the costs of lab tests account for only four percent of the total in health care costs. Annual sales for clinical laboratory testing in the U.S. in 2001 were thirty-five
mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDs, malaria and other disease by 2015.(WHO, 2008). The challenge for meeting this deadline of goals was perceived as emergent and had a powerful effect for transforming the long-standing problem of global public health. It was perceived that globalization was putting the social cohesiveness of many countries under stress and that the health systems as key constituents of our contemporary societies were clearly not performing as well as they could and
and medical devices are necessary for the maintenance of good health, a significant decrease in use is not likely. The largest threat of substitutes comes from generic pharmaceuticals. Once a drug loses patent protection, associated revenue usually rapidly falls. One way to mitigate the effect of generic drugs would be to develop more compounds with lower sales, perhaps by targeting more precise conditions. A similar threat of substitutes is
Examinations Revision Package 2011 Contents Section A: Case Studies 1. 2007 TPJC Prelims H1 Paper CSQ1: China’s Water Woes 2. 2007 GCE A-Level Paper H1 CSQ1: International Tourism (covered in Lecture) 3. 2008 CJC Prelims H1 Paper CSQ1: The Illegal Drug Market 4. 2009 RVHS Year 5 End of Year Exams Paper CSQ1: Challenges of the Agricultural Sector Section B: Essays 1. 2006 SAJC H1 Final Exams: Application of Demand and Supply – Price Control 2. 2008 SRJC H1 Prelims: Market Failure 3. 2008 A Levels
investment is significantly above that of our peers in the packaged foods industry. Cost saving and efficiency programs in 2009 provided substantial progress toward our goal of $1 billion in annual cost savings by the end of 2011. We now expect to exceed $1 billion in savings over this three-year period. % growth 3% 4% 3% (1)% 3% 2% 7% 5% 3% North America ™ 2009 NET SALES North America Frozen & Specialty Channels $12.6