Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceutical Policy in the AsiaPacific
Publisher: Asia-Pacific Research Network; Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Brookings Institution (distributor)
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781931368162
Description: The first section of this report analyzes pharmaceutical policy in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India. The second section focuses on two cross-cutting themes: differences in "prescribing cultures" and physician dispensing; and the challenge of balancing access to drugs with incentives for innovation -- p. [4] of cover.