Experts endorse plans and policies that simultaneously address structural (including policy, fiscal, industry and private businesses, international collaboration), community (including mass media, voluntary organization, institutions, primary healthcare) and individual (including behavioural and pharmacological interventions) dimensions of chronic diseases [ 1, 10].
With new regulations, weak growth and fiscal concerns, the financial industry increasingly finds itself at the center of the economic debate.
Having our government acknowledge and fix its long-term fiscal crisis will provide our financial industry something it so desperately seems to need an honest financial role model.
Germany's economic success since World War II is to a large extent built on its potent export industries, fiscal discipline and consensus-driven industrial relations and welfare policies.
On Capitol Hill, the Democratic agenda faces three significant constraints: Mr. Bush, fiscal reality and industry resistance.
Four dimensions of structural responses have been identified in the global literature: policy, fiscal, engagement with industry and with international partners.
But Russia's 1998 fiscal collapse transformed the industry's economics.
The healthcare and pension benefits guaranteed to members of the United Auto Workers union placed an additional fiscal burden on the industry.
To make matters worse, the country's oil industry, its fiscal cash-cow for the past three decades, is declining swiftly (see chart).
The government-sponsored bankruptcies of G.M. and Chrysler, and significant reorganization at Ford on its own, have restored fiscal health to the industry, which had been reeling from overcapacity, huge health care costs and a collapse in consumer credit.
In one indication of the industry's fiscal wariness, Travelex Insurance Services of Omaha and Travel Guard International of Stevens Point, Wis., announced recently they would stop providing trip cancellation coverage for cruises of American Classic Voyages, parent of the Delta Queen Steamboat Company, United States Lines and American Hawaii Cruises.
