Kresge Research Guides: Health Care in Developing Countries: General Health Care

Best Resources for the Health Care Industry

EMIS Emerging Markets
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EMIS includes company profiles, news, market reports, country reports, and data on global emerging markets. EMIS is also a clearing house for several industry research and market firms such as Allied Market Research, Arizton Advisory and Intelligence, BIS Research, BMI Research, BuddeComm Telecom Reports, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Industry Reports, GlobalData, MarketLine, Mordor Intelligence, and Oxford Economics.
Technical notes: Users must create individual accounts in EMIS and login in order to download or export data from the database.
FitchConnect
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Provides economic, political, and industry sector analysis for 175 countries. Information is divided into BMI Reports, Data and Forecasts, and Alerts and Analysis.
FitchConnect training videos:
Macro Overview-Country Risk, Industry Risk, Global Research, Interactive Charts.

Country Risk and Industry Research search for multiple countries and industries

Interactive Charts

Indices, Databases, Data Tools, Webinars and Support
GlobalData Medical Intelligence Center
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- Includes seven medical equipment databases, news and opinions, and research reports. Databases include information on medical equipment market size and share, product and pipeline, deals, clinical trials, procedures, and patents, by country and company.
- Technical notes: Downloading of data is not available.
World Bank e-Library
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Thousands of World Bank publications, Policy Research Working Papers and The World Bank Economic Review. Topics include agriculture and rural development; business procurement; commodities, pricing, and trade; banking, finance, and investment; energy, industry, and mining; globalization; labor and income; legal and judicial issues; social and cultural issues; technology and telecommunications.
World Development Indicators
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- The World Development Indicators (WDI) provides a comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960. Specific series and countries/groups can be selected for specific year ranges, and data can be exported.
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Frost & Sullivan
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- Research in market analysis, technical reports, end-user studies, and quantitative measurement based reports.
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Use policy: When using material from this database in reports and presentations, vendor contract requirements dictate that you must include the phrase, "Used with permission of Frost & Sullivan."

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Additional Resources for the Health Care Industry (in Developing Countries)

Indiastat

UM Users

Resource for extensive information on the Indian economy, including heathcare.
To access the data, please click on a link called "IP Login" at the top of the main page.

BCC Research
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BCC Research provides access to market research reports and market forecasting in advanced materials, biotechnology, chemicals, energy, healthcare, sensors, plastics, nanotechnology, and other emerging technologies. Over 250 research reports are published annually.
Statista
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Statista includes ready-made statistical charts, graphs and tables on marketing, demographics, communication, technology, politics, health, leisure and public opinion polls.
ThomsonONE
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- Market data and worldwide company financial and related information such as company statistics, analyst reports and funding transactions.
- ThomsonONE contains data from: ThomsonONE Banker, Thomson Research & VentureXpert
- Technical notes: ThomsonONE works in Internet Explorer only. Data downloads are in Microsoft Excel format. For Analyst Reports select the 'Research' option on the left. For VentureXpert content, select the 'Screening & Analysis' option, then 'Private Equity'.

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Freely Available Resources

Management Science for Heath
Their mission is: "Saving lives and improving health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health." The Publications (under Resources) provide excellent studies.
Kaiser Family Foundation's Global Health Policy
Great source for a variety of resources from the Kaiser Family Foundation and governments on global health issues.
Commonwealth Fund's International Health Policy Center
While primarily focused on the United States, the Commonwealth Fund has a number of resources here on global health issues.