Pharmaceutical reform: a guide to improving performance and equity
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 et…
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- Full title :Pharmaceutical reform : a guide to improving performance and equity / Marc J. Roberts and Michael R. Reich.
Summary
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 apply them to the pharmaceutical sector. -- publisher description.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):World Bank Publications
- Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (356 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780821387719, 0821387715, 082138760X, 9780821387603
- oclc:ocn756484483
- LC Classification:RA401.A1
- Dewey Decimal:615.1
Table of Contents
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.
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