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Title Pharmaceutical innovation : incentives, competition, and cost-benefit analysis in international perspective / edited by Frank A. Sloan, Chee-Ruey Hsieh
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2007]
©2007
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 331 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Frank A. Sloan and Chee-Ruey Hsieh -- The pharmaceutical sector in health care / Uwe E. Reinhardt -- The economics of research and development in the pharmaceutical industry / William S. Comanor -- Drugs for neglected diseases: new incentives for innovation / Aidan Hollis -- When patents fail: finding new drugs for the developing world / Stephen M. Maurer -- Implementing a public subsidy for vaccines / Frank A. Sloan and Charles E. Eesley -- Ensuring the future supply of vaccines: is a national vaccine authority the answer? / Frank R. Lichtenberg -- Competition between generic and branded drugs / Henry Grabowski -- The United States' experience with direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs: what have we learned? / Ernst R. Berndt -- Measures of costs and benefits for drugs in cost-effectiveness analysis / Mark V. Pauly -- Using economic evaluation in reimbursement decisions for health technologies: lessons from international experience / Michael Drummond -- Pharmaceutical spending and health outcomes / Pierre-Yves Cremieux [and others] -- Pharmaceutical innovation and health outcomes: empirical evidence from Taiwan / Chee-Ruey Hsieh [and others] -- Conclusions and policy implications / Frank A. Sloan and Chee-Ruey Hsieh
Summary This book reviews existing evidence and new ideas on how best to promote pharmaceutical innovation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-317) and index
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Subject Drug development -- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Pharmaceutical policy.
Drug Industry -- economics.
Cost-Benefit Analysis.
Economic Competition.
Health Policy.
Pharmaceutical Preparations -- economics.
Vaccines -- economics.
Form Electronic book
Author Hsieh, Chee-Ruey.
Sloan, Frank A.
ISBN 051128585X (electronic bk.)
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