Global pharmaceutical policy
Subtitle: ensuring medicines for tomorrow's world
By: Frederick M. Abbott, Graham Dukes.
Contributors: Dukes, M. N. G.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781848440906
Subjects: Drugs -- Law and legislation; Pharmacy -- Law and legislation; Pharmaceutical policy -- International cooperation
Description: Pharmaceuticals play a central role in health care throughout the world. The pharmaceutical industry is beset with difficulties as increasing research and development expenditure yields fewer new treatments. Public and private budgets strain under the weight of high prices and limited access. The world's poor see little effort to address diseases prevalent in less affluent societies, while the world's wealthy are overusing prescription drugs, risking their health and wasting resources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenges we face; title: Promoting innovation : patents, subsidies, prizes and prices; title: Policies on innovation: past, present, and future; title: The global regulatory environment : quality, safety, and efficacy; title: Medicines for the developing world; title: The use of medicines : education, information, and persuasion; title: Regulation and the role of the courts; title: Specialized policy areas : vaccines, biologicals, and blood products : alternative and traditional medicines : self-medication : counterfeit medicines; title: The rich, the poor, and the neglected; title: Global and regional policies : the way ahead.