UID:
almafu_9958070826202883
Format:
xx, 332 pages :
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illustrations ;
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24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-29262-9
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9786613292629
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0-8213-8771-5
Series Statement:
World Bank Training
Content:
This book applies an established analytical framework for health sector reform (Getting Health Reform Right, Oxford, 2004) to the performance problems of the pharmaceutical sector. The book is divided into three sections. The first section presents the basic ideas for analysis. It begins by insisting that reform start with a clear understanding of the performance deficiencies of the current system. Like all priority setting in the public sector, this 'definition of the problem' involves both ethical choices and political processes. Early chapters explain the foundations of these ideas and appl
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction -- Using the flagship framework to reform pharmaceutical policy -- Introduction to the pharmaceutical sector -- Ethics and priority setting in pharmaceutical reform -- Diagnosing performance problems and developing a policy response -- Managing the politics of pharmaceutical policy reform -- Financing the pharmaceutical sector -- Paying for pharmaceuticals -- Organizing the public sector to improve pharmaceutical performance -- Improving pharmaceutical performance through regulation -- Using persuasion to influence pharmaceutical use -- Conclusions.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8213-8760-X
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
URL:
Volltext
(kostenfrei)
URL:
Volltext
(kostenfrei)
URL:
http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-8760-3
