UID:
almahu_9947914837202882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 255 p.) :
,
ill.
ISBN:
9781845424664 (e-book)
Content:
This book provides a complete approach to the economics of financing medicines and policy implications for the efficiency and equity of health systems. In all health systems with majority public financing, pharmaceutical reimbursement is one of the key factors in policies of change and transformation of health services in order to face the future with guarantees of financial sustainability.
Note:
1. Introduction : public pharmaceutical expenditure -- 2. Incentives for innovation in the pharmaceutical market -- 3. Price regulation systems in the pharmaceutical market -- 4. Regulation and competition in pharmaceutical markets -- 5. Mechanisms to encourage price competition in the pharmaceutical market and their effects on efficiency and welfare -- 6. Reference pricing as a pharmaceutical reimbursement mechanism -- 7. Insurance in public financing of pharmaceuticals -- 8. Economic evaluation and pharmaceutical policy -- 9. Prescriber incentives -- 10. Economic considerations regarding pharmaceutical expenditure in Spain and its financing -- 11. Review of economic studies of the pharmaceutical industry published over the last 20 years.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845420888 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845420888
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781845420888.xml
URL:
Volltext
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