TY - BOOK
T1 - Pharmaceutical policy in countries with developing healthcare systems
AU - Babar, Zaheer Ud Din
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - A comprehensive and granular insight into the challenges of promoting rational medicine, this book serves as an essential resource for health policy makers and researchers interested in national medicines policies. Country-specific chapters have a common format, beginning with an overview of the health system and regulatory and policy environments, before discussing the difficulties in maintaining a medicines supply system, challenges in ensuring access to affordable medicines and issues impacting on rational medicine use. Numerous case studies are also used to highlight key issues and each chapter concludes with country-specific solutions to the issues raised. Written by highly regarded academics, the book includes countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America.
AB - A comprehensive and granular insight into the challenges of promoting rational medicine, this book serves as an essential resource for health policy makers and researchers interested in national medicines policies. Country-specific chapters have a common format, beginning with an overview of the health system and regulatory and policy environments, before discussing the difficulties in maintaining a medicines supply system, challenges in ensuring access to affordable medicines and issues impacting on rational medicine use. Numerous case studies are also used to highlight key issues and each chapter concludes with country-specific solutions to the issues raised. Written by highly regarded academics, the book includes countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America.
KW - Access to Medicines
KW - Low income countries
KW - Medicines Regulation
KW - Medicines Use
KW - Middle income countries
KW - Pharmaceutical Health Services
KW - Pharmacoeconomics
KW - Pharmacovigilance
KW - Pharmacy Practice
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85034407481&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-51673-8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-51673-8
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85034407481
SN - 9783319516721
BT - Pharmaceutical policy in countries with developing healthcare systems
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
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