| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 472 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Sabine Vogler |
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Part I: Evidence : findings of medicine price studies: 2. International comparison of medicine prices: 2.1. Medicine prices in European countries / Mitja Kos ; 2.2. Medicine prices in the United States and Canada / Aidan Hollis, Paul Grootendorst ; 2.3. Medicine prices in Asia-Pacific countries / Zaheer Ud-din Babar, Rabia Hussain, Syed Shahzad Hasan ; 2.4. Medicine prices in Latin American countries / Jaime Espín Balbino, Joan Rovira Forns, Claudia Vaca González ; 2.5. Medicine prices in Africa / Swathi Iyengar, Rianne van den Ham, Fatima Suleman -- 3. Price studies for specific medicines / Peter Schneider, Sabine Vogler -- 4. Studies of medicine price developments / Peter Schneider, Sabine Vogler -- 5. Discussion and summary / Sabine Vogler |
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Part II: Training : how to conduct medicine price surveys, analyses and comparisons?: 6.1. Review of methodologies to conduct price studies ; 6.2. WHO/HAI methodology for measuring medicine prices, availability and affordability, and price components / Priyanka Konduru Subramani Raju -- 7. Terminology : is talking about definitions boring, or is it the starting point? / Nina Zimmermann -- 8. Medicine price data sources / Sabine Vogler, Peter Schneider -- 9. Preparing price studies : key methodological decisions / Sabine Vogler, Peter Schneider, Nina Zimmermann -- 10. Training exercises for medicine price surveys, analyses and comparisons / Nina Zimmermann, Peter Schneider, Sabine Vogler |
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Part III: Using medicine price comparisons for policy-making: 11. Price comparison as a pricing policy option : introduction to pharmaceutical policies / Sabine Vogler -- 12. Practice of external price referencing / Peter Schneider, Sabine Vogler -- 13. Assessment of external price referencing and alternative policies / Sabine Vogler -- 14. Policy guidance / Sabine Vogler -- 15. External price referencing policy brief / Sabine Vogler -- 16. Conclusions / Sabine Vogler |
| Summary |
Medicine Price Surveys, Analyses and Comparisons establishes guidelines for the study and implementation of pharmaceutical price surveys, analyses, and comparisons. Its contributors evaluate price survey literature, discuss the accessibility and reliability of data sources, and provide a checklist and training kit on conducting price surveys, analyses, and comparisons. Their investigations survey price studies while accounting for the effects of methodologies and explaining regional differences in medicine prices. They also consider policy objectives such as affordable access to medicines and cost-containment as well as options for improving the effectiveness of policies. Provides guidance for planning and implementing pharmaceutical pricing policies and systems. Reviews external price referencing systems. Explains common baselines for interpreting price surveys. Defines pharmaceutical price terminology and nomenclature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed March 13, 2019) |
| Subject |
Drugs -- Prices.
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Drugs -- Economic aspects
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Economic aspects
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Fees, Pharmaceutical
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Costs and Cost Analysis -- methods
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Drugs -- Economic aspects
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Drugs -- Prices
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Pharmaceutical industry -- Economic aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vogler, Sabine M., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780128132128 |
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0128132124 |
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