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Global pharmaceutical policy : ensuring medicines for tomorrow's world / Frederick M. Abbott, Graham Dukes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abbott, Frederick M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--Law and legislation.
- Drugs.
- Pharmacy--Law and legislation.
- Pharmacy.
- Pharmaceutical policy--International cooperation.
- Pharmaceutical policy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pharmaceuticals play a central role in health care throughout the world. This book looks at the issues surrounding global regulation of the pharmaceutical sector, and offers pragmatic suggestions for reform. This book is suitable for government policy-makers, members of industry, healthcare professionals, teachers, students and lawyers.
- Contents:
- The challenges we face
- Promoting innovation : patents, subsidies, prizes and prices
- Policies on innovation: past, present, and future
- The global regulatory environment : quality, safety, and efficacy
- Medicines for the developing world
- The use of medicines : education, information, and persuasion
- Regulation and the role of the courts
- Specialized policy areas : vaccines, biologicals, and blood products : alternative and traditional medicines : self-medication : counterfeit medicines
- The rich, the poor, and the neglected
- Global and regional policies : the way ahead.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-44205-8
- 9786612442056
- 1-84980-184-3
- OCLC:
- 503084101
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