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Medical innovation and disease burden : conflicting priorities and the social divide in India / Sobin George.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Sobin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--India.
- Public health.
- Medical care--India.
- Medical care.
- Equality--Health aspects--India.
- Equality.
- Health services accessibility--India.
- Health services accessibility.
- Medical innovations--India.
- Medical innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Striking the right balance between public health priorities and health innovation is a critical policy challenge for India given their mutually conflicting nature and interests. India has a huge burden of diseases implicated by a gamut of health problems including the uneven distribution of demographic and epidemiological transition, threat of new infectious disease pandemic like COVID 19, increasing privatisation of healthcare, low affordability to life saving medicines and most importantly the escalating healthcare expenditure coupled with poor financial risk protection. The central question that the book addresses is whether health innovation in India is sensitive to the public health needs and priorities. It unearths the overriding issues related to responsiveness and equity in India's health innovation. The book highlights the need for a responsible innovation framework for India that balances the priorities of public health and the industry goals.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Medical Innovation and Disease Burden
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Medical innovations and public health priorities
- Health R&
- D in India
- Public health relevance of medical R&
- D
- 1 Medical Innovation and Its Institutional Co-production in India
- The Indian pharmaceutical industry: sales, export and R&
- Performance of the biopharmaceutical industry in India
- The Indian medical device/technology sector
- The institutional network of medical innovation
- State, academia and industry linkages in India
- Funding agencies and priority areas in medical innovation
- Partnering institutions for clinical trials
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1A
- 2 The Disease Focus of Health Research and Development
- R&
- D and disease focus
- Disease focus of R&
- D in branded generics and biosimilars
- Disease focus of therapeutic and vaccine R&
- D of biopharmaceuticals in India
- D pipeline of major India biopharmaceuticals
- Disease focus of new chemical entity research in India
- Disease focus of medical device/technology R&
- Appendix 2A
- Brief webnography of selected biopharmaceutical companies
- 3 Drug Development and Responsiveness to Disease Burden
- Causes of deaths in India: a detailed analysis
- Disease-specific mortality
- Morbidity burden of diseases
- Responsiveness of therapeutic drug development to disease burden
- Implications of lower focus on infectious diseases
- Responsiveness of vaccine development to the infectious disease burden
- 4 Affordability and the Social Divide
- Drug price (de)regulation in India
- The financial burden and affordability of medicines in India
- Price variations of branded drugs.
- Price regulation and drug development: ongoing debates
- Value-based pricing and the debate on price reduction in India
- Technological innovation and cost of drugs
- The social divide
- Medicalisation, pharmaceuticalisation and social inequality
- 5 The Puzzle of Responsive and Responsible Medical Innovation
- Challenges of responsive medical innovation
- Actors, priorities and equity issues
- Policy mismatches
- Responsive and responsible innovation: the way ahead
- Regulation with facilitation
- Balancing the power in global R&
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jan 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-108-96822-8
- 1-108-93583-4
- OCLC:
- 1204267071
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