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Author Abbott, Frederick M.

Title Global pharmaceutical policy : ensuring medicines for tomorrow's world / Frederick M. Abbott, Graham Dukes
Published Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 308 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Drugs -- Law and legislation.
Pharmacy -- Law and legislation.
Pharmaceutical policy -- International cooperation
International cooperation.
Legislation, Pharmacy
Drug Industry -- legislation & jurisprudence
International Cooperation
Pharmaceutical Preparations -- economics
LAW -- Health.
International cooperation.
Drugs -- Law and legislation.
Pharmacy -- Law and legislation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Form Electronic book
Author Dukes, M. N. G. (Maurice Nelson Graham)
LC no. 2009930852
ISBN 9781849801843
1849801843