Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 255 p)
,
ill
ISBN:
9781845424664
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index -- "List of economic studies of the pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceuticals published over the last 20 years by Spanish economists": p. 235-244
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845420888
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845420888 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 9781845420888 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The public financing of pharmaceuticals Cheltenham [u.a.] : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005 ISBN 1845420888
Language:
English
Subjects:
Chemistry/Pharmacy
,
Economics
Keywords:
Arzneimittelwirtschaft
;
Öffentlicher Sektor
;
Gesundheitspolitik
;
Pharmazeutische Industrie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.4337/9781845424664
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