Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies in a Global Market

Pharmaceutical policy making raises particular challenges in reconciling key objectives for health policy, such as ensuring affordable access to the latest effective drugs, with other important policy considerations, such as providing support to a valuable national industry. Unusually among health p...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2008
Series:OECD Health Policy Studies
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Impact of National Pricing and Reimbursement Practices on Prices and Availability of Medicines in Other Countries
  • Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement and the Broader Pharmaceutical Policy Environment
  • Key Characteristics of the Pharmaceutical Sector in OECD Economies
  • Conclusions
  • The Impact of Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies on Pharmaceutical Innovation
  • The Impact of Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies on Performance in Meeting Health Policy Goals
  • The Pharmaceutical Industry and its Activities