Pharmaceutical innovation
Subtitle: incentives, competition, and cost-benefit analysis in international perspective
By: edited by Frank A. Sloan, Chee-Ruey Hsieh.
Contributors: Sloan, Frank A.; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780521874908
Subjects: Pharmaceutical policy.; Pharmaceutical industry.; Drug development -- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.; Drug Industry -- economics.; Cost-Benefit Analysis.; Economic Competition.; Health Policy.; Pharmaceutical Preparations -- economics.; Vaccines -- economics.
Description: This text explores four important issues in pharmaceutical innovations: the industry structure of pharmaceutical innovations; incentives for correcting market failures in allocating resources for research and development; competition and marketing; and public evaluation of the benefits and costs of innovation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Frank A. Sloan and Chee-Ruey Hsieh; title: The pharmaceutical sector in health care / Uwe E. Reinhardt; title: The economics of research and development in the pharmaceutical industry / William S. Comanor; title: Drugs for neglected diseases: new incentives for innovation / Aidan Hollis; title: When patents fail: finding new drugs for the developing world / Stephen M. Maurer; title: Implementing a public subsidy for vaccines / Frank A. Sloan and Charles E. Eesley; title: Ensuring the future supply of vaccines: is a national vaccine authority the answer? / Frank R. Lichtenberg; title: Competition between generic and branded drugs / Henry Grabowski; title: The United States' experience with direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs: what have we learned? / Ernst R. Berndt; title: Measures of costs and benefits for drugs in cost-effectiveness analysis / Mark V. Pauly; title: Using economic evaluation in reimbursement decisions for health technologies: lessons from international experience / Michael Drummond; title: Pharmaceutical spending and health outcomes / Pierre-Yves Cremieux ... [et al.]; title: Pharmaceutical innovation and health outcomes: empirical evidence from Taiwan / Chee-Ruey Hsieh ... [et al.]; title: Conclusions and policy implications / Frank A. Sloan and Chee-Ruey Hsieh.