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Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceutical Policy in the Asia Pacific
Karen . Ed(S): Eggleston
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Paperback. Pharmaceutical policies are interlinked globally, yet deeply rooted in local culture. Prescribing Cultures examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific. Editor(s): Eggleston, Karen. Num Pages: 380 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1MBF; MBN; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Pharmaceutical policies are interlinked globally, yet deeply rooted in local culture. Prescribing Cultures examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific.
The first section of this timely book —which includes a foreword by Michael Reich of Harvard University —addresses pharmaceutical policy in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India. The second section focuses on two crosscutting themes: differences in "prescribing cultures," especially among physicians, who are the primary dispensers of medicine in Asia, and the challenge of balancing access to drugs with incentives for innovation.
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Pharmaceutical policies are interlinked globally, yet deeply rooted in local culture. Prescribing Cultures examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific.
The first section of this timely book —which includes a foreword by Michael Reich of Harvard University —addresses pharmaceutical policy in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India. The second section focuses on two crosscutting themes: differences in "prescribing cultures," especially among physicians, who are the primary dispensers of medicine in Asia, and the challenge of balancing access to drugs with incentives for innovation.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Asia/Pacific Research Center, Div of The Institute for International Studies United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9781931368162
SKU
V9781931368162
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Ref
99-15
About Karen . Ed(S): Eggleston
Karen Eggleston is the director of the Asia Health Policy Program at Shorenstein APARC, USA. Since 2003, she has also been a research associate at the China Academy of Health Policy at Peking University, China. In 2004, she served as a consultant to the World Bank on their project on health service delivery in rural China.
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