| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 216 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Trust, 2509-7903 ; volume 5 |
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Trust (Singapore) ; v. 5.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction : What "goods" are pharmaceuticals? -- 2. Global circulation of imitated products, poor quality pharmaceuticals, fake products, and health problems -- 3. The World Health Organization -- 4. Quality and standardization for globalization -- 5. Global rising tides associated with pharmaceuticals -- 6. A dead end of IMPACT -- 7. A case study in Indonesia : Self-medication and limited access -- 8. A case study in India : Market as a safety net -- 9. An example of healthcare service market in Japan -- 10. Aiming for global safety net : An interpretation and lessons -- 11. Epilog |
| Summary |
This book aims to clarify the global aspects of poor quality pharmaceuticals, generic products in particular, becoming complicated through the process of IMPACT (International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce) organized by the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006. The findings from this book provide a long-term perspective to policymakers. This book discusses from the following points: industrial standardization, healthcare market accessibility, motivation on supply side, WHO medicines policy and intellectual property rights. Standardization regulates the quality and enabled the generic medicines spreading to developing/emerging countries through technology transfer. However, quality is a part of cost and reflected to price. When a healthcare service market is divided according to wealth gap, compliance to standardization for quality on supply side is divided accordingly. Thus, poor quality pharmaceuticals are prevalent worldwide. Generic pharmaceuticals are essential resources in public health. The WHO has been involved in the dispute around the intellectual property rights under its intention to promote the new drug development for neglected diseases. Global pandemic of AIDs is a critical factor to accelerate the confusion. This created feelings of distrust among developing/emerging countries against developed countries if the WHO was in favour of developed countries. In addition to that, an easy and optimistic start of IMPACT stirred up conflicts of interests in the international community. The problem of poor quality pharmaceuticals became more complicated through the conflicts on intellectual property rights; patented drugs to generic drugs. A key for quality generic products is the formation of a single healthcare service market where good motivation on supply side together with fair competitiveness with patented pharmaceuticals and equitable access to services (both for the rich and the poor) are ensured. Political commitment to investment and regulatory infrastructure for the market is crucial |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Satoru KIMURA is a counselor at the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Regulatory Science Society of Japan, and has been engaged in publishing audio-visual materials about drug-induced social suffering. Yasuhide NAKAMURA is a Professor of School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Konan Women's University and Professor Emeritus of Osaka University |
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Print version record |
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Drugs -- Quality control
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Pharmaceutical chemistry.
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Quality control.
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Pharmaceutical industry.
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Pharmaceutical technology.
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World health.
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Substandard Drugs
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Quality Control
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Drug Industry
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Technology, Pharmaceutical
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Global Health
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Chemistry, Pharmaceutical
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quality control.
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World health
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Pharmaceutical technology
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Pharmaceutical industry
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Quality control
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Drugs -- Quality control
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Pharmaceutical chemistry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nakamura, Yasuhide, 1952- author.
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| ISBN |
9789811520891 |
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9811520895 |
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