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The Drugs Stop Here : A Public Health Framework to Address the Drug Shortage Crisis
Hoffman, Sharona - 2012
Drug shortages are emerging as a major public health threat. Grave concern has been expressed by the medical community and government officials, and the crisis has been highlighted in recent media stories. Nevertheless, little has been written to date in the legal literature about the drug...
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Excessive Pharmaceutical Prices and Competition Law : Doctrinal Development to Protect Public Health
Abbott, Frederick M. - 2017
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Elderly Healthcare in the Face of Budget Constraint
Perlingeiro, Ricardo - 2017
A versão em português deste texto está disponível em: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2441607" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2441607 La versione italiana di questo documento è disponibile all'indirizzo: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2607031" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2607031La versión en español de este...
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Consumer Financial Protection in Health Care
Fuse Brown, Erin C. - 2017
There are inadequate consumer protections from harmful medical billing practices that result in unavoidable, unexpected, and often financially devastating medical bills. The problem stems from increasing cost shifting to patients underway in American health care and the inordinate complexity...
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Traditional Medicine : Oversight of Practitioners and Practices in Uganda
Kyomugisha, Hope - 2009
Traditional medicine, also known as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), has been defined as "health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs incorporating plant, animal and mineral based medicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercises, applied singularly or in...
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The Vanishing Public Domain : Antibiotic Resistance, Pharmaceutical Innovation and Global Public Health
Outterson, Kevin - 2014
Penicillin and other antibiotics were the original wonder drugs and laid the foundation of the modern pharmaceutical industry. Human health significantly improved with the introduction of antibiotics. By 1967, the US Surgeon General declared victory over infectious diseases in the US. But pride...
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Risk or Benefit? Expenditures with Medicines Demanded by Judicial Decisions against Brazilian National Public Health System (SUS) and the Risk of Damage to Patients by Medicines In...
Faleiros, Daniel; Guerra, Augusto A.; Silva, Grazielle D.; … - 2008
Rationale: The policy of free and universal access to healthcare in Brazil, that assures the principle of equity based on the Federal Constitution of 1988, has caused repercussions as citizens become more aware of their rights. This has been achieved via lawsuits based on the statement: health...
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Science, Scarcity and Public Health : The Search for New Pharma Models
Abbott, Frederick M. - 2015
These are neither the best of times nor the worst of times for the pharmaceutical industry, or for global public health. Media reports regarding recent legal developments would suggest that the originator pharmaceutical industry is facing a new and dangerous threat to its long-term welfare,...
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Trade in Medicines
Abbott, Frederick M. - 2016
, distribution and trade in pharmaceuticals and related supplies are subject to government regulatory control at a number of levels … differential regulation may unnecessarily hinder the cross-border movement of pharmaceuticals, particularly among regions that … include chapters covering intellectual property rights and regulatory data with respect to pharmaceuticals, as well as …
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Improving the Czech health care system
Fall, Falilou; Glocker, Daniela - 2018
The Czech health care system is doing well in terms of health outcomes compared to other Central East European economies that inherited similar health systems after the transition and has been converging to OECD averages. However, benchmarking the Czech health system to countries with comparable...
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