Measuring transparency to improve good governance in the public pharmaceutical sector. Lebanon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmaceutical industry--Standards--Lebanon.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Pharmaceutical policy--Lebanon.

Pharmaceutical policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Lebanon

Place of Publication:

Cairo, Egypt : World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This report presents the results of a transparency assessment carried out in Lebanon. It gives a comprehensive assessment of the level of transparency and the level of vulnerability to corruption within the six primary functions of the pharmaceutical sector - registration, inspection, promotion, selection, procurement and distribution of medicines. The methodology provides both qualitative and quantitative information. Three national investigators, selected by the Ministry of Health, collected data by conducting a series of interviews with 50 carefully selected key informants. The inform

Contents:

COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Executive summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of the public pharmaceutical sector in Lebanon; 3. Methodology; 4. Results and data presentations; 5. Data analysis and discussion; 6. Recommendations; 7. Conclusions; 8. Resource documents; Annexes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

92-9021-714-6

OCLC:

694342017