Datamonitor's Health Care Equipment & Supplies: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the health care equipment & supplies industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value and segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

* Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 11 individual country markets

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

Increasing standards of living have created the expectation of high quality healthcare, which, together with a rising global population, has driven strong growth within the global healthcare equipment and supplies market.

As market players seek to expand their share, many companies have considered geographical expansion.

Expansion within the US and Europe, amidst fierce competition and the continual emergence of pioneering market entrants, has largely been achieved by acquisition.

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Definition

The health care equipment & supplies market consists of manufacturers of health care equipments and supplies. Market value refers to the revenues generated through the sale of disposable equipment such as syringes, catheters, electrodes, sutures, bandages, implantable prostheses and orthotics and prosthetics; technical aids such as hearing aids and wheelchairs; ophthalmic equipment such as eye glasses, contact lenses and ophthalmoscopes; in vitro diagnostics such as devices for clinical chemistry, microbiology, immunology and genetic tests; and other equipment such as imaging equipment and films and equipment for radiotherapy, dialysis, endoscopy, anaesthetics ect.. The market is valued at manufacturers selling price with any currency conversions calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates.

For the purposes of this report Asia-Pacific is comprised of Japan, China, India, Singapore, and Taiwan. Europe is comprised of France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain and UK.
The global market is comprised of Europe, Asia-Pacific, Canada and the US.