The COVID-19 crisis intensified decade-long debates on the interaction between intellectual property rights (IPRs), competition law and access to affordable life-saving treatments and vaccines. Compulsory licensing of patented medicines is a tried-and-tested method to expand access, particularly...

Dieses Buch liefert einen Überblick über die Strukturen des Gesundheitswesens im internationalen Vergleich. Der Überblick wird ergänzt durch Fallbeispiele zu den Gesundheitssystemen einiger Länder, die in Deutschland bei Reformen immer wieder herangezogen werden. Erklärt wird zudem die...

The German global health strategy review process offers the opportunity to place a stronger focus on the horizontal integration of Germany's global health efforts with those of European partners. This is urgently needed as the German strategy makes little reference to the European Union (EU) and...