Author: Carolyn Saenz
Publisher:
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Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309468086
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.

Author: Saad Shamimulhaq
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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The Competition is increasing day by day in Business arena and one who reacted timely against these frequent changes can survive in the competition, same in the field of pharmaceutical marketing, every day different companies bringing different brands with continuously increasing the size of market. In this competition medical practitioner and physicians are the key customers for this industry. Physicians are actually the ultimate decision holder of which brand should be prescribed to their patients. Therefore, all the marketing strategies are being focused towards them. Marketing strategies are revolving around product, price and promotions and Companies are making marketing tools to draw the attention of physicians for prescribing the brands. In this study, the researcher examines the factors, which are influencing the prescription behavior of physicians. In this regard, Regression analysis has been used to conclude the results of the undertaken study. The research is based on panel data. There are certain factors, which influence the prescription behavior of physicians such as New Drug in market, Brand Prescription, Sponsorship to Conferences, promotional tools and drug samples. Influence is heavily depends on how the sales person promote their brands. The main conclusion of this study is that there are two factors which impact a lot than any other factor i.e. one is New Drug in market and the promotional tools.

Author: World Health Organization
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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"Resolution WHA41.17 adopted by the Forty-first World Health Assembly, 13 May 1988" -- p.1.

Author: Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319121693
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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This book provides an overview of the global pharmaceutical pricing policies. Medicines use is increasing globally with the increase in resistant microbes, emergence of new treatments, and because of awareness among consumers. This has resulted in increased drug expenditures globally. As the pharmaceutical market is expanding, a variety of pharmaceutical pricing strategies and policies have been employed by drug companies, state organizations and pharmaceutical pricing authorities.

Author: Andrew Gallan
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The prescribing of pharmaceuticals by health care providers is influenced by many factors. The significance of these factors is an important consideration to public health advocates and government agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms, physician and provider associations, medical ethics researchers, patient consumers, and other stakeholders in health care. Better understanding of the factors that motivate physician prescribing can bring about more efficient use of health care resources through the improved dissemination of information and more informed decision making. This paper attempts to provide a sound and inclusive review of the influences upon physician prescribing patterns in the extant literature. This review identifies several factors as being highly influential upon physician prescribing: peer influence, financial and managed care considerations, pharmaceutical representatives and drug samples, and direct-to-consumer advertising. To date, several key areas have not been well researched; these include the perceived price of a drug, the role of new technology, and the impact of physician experience. Based upon the literature review, a theoretical model of individual physician prescribing in the outpatient setting is proposed. Further research might be directed toward determining the influence of each factor upon physician prescribing and testing the overall model and interactions among its individual components.

Author: Suprit Joshi
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 7

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Pharmaceutical marketing is unique as the decision making of buying the medicine lies in the hand of intermediate customer (doctor) rather than final consumer (patient). Thus pharmaceutical companies try to influence the customer (doctor) rather than final consumer (Patient). Thus doctors are the most important players in pharmaceutical marketing system. Doctors write the prescriptions that determine which drugs (brands) will be used by the consumer (patient). Thus influencing the doctor is a key to the pharmaceutical sales. Pharmaceutical companies try to influence prescription pattern of doctors in favor of their brands by offering various kinds of promotional inputs. Doctor's relationship with pharmaceutical companies is receiving a good attention since last few years. The reason being that the pharmaceutical marketing of branded formulation start and ends at doctor's place. The ever increasing number of companies, molecules and brands will force the companies to have a good bonding with doctors. This bonding will come by fulfilling the customer's desire by giving exactly what he/ she wants in terms of knowledge, communication, and updates on recent innovations. In this study the researcher have made an effort to understand the same. If industry understands how to satisfy their customer it will helpful for developing a long lasting relationship with their customer. The purpose of the study is to develop a simple framework for finding out the impact of the different kind of promotional tools offered by pharmaceutical industry on the prescribing behavior of doctors.

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780215024572
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Incorporating HC 1030-i to iii.

Author: Andrea De Vries
Publisher:
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Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309145449
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Collaborations of physicians and researchers with industry can provide valuable benefits to society, particularly in the translation of basic scientific discoveries to new therapies and products. Recent reports and news stories have, however, documented disturbing examples of relationships and practices that put at risk the integrity of medical research, the objectivity of professional education, the quality of patient care, the soundness of clinical practice guidelines, and the public's trust in medicine. Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice provides a comprehensive look at conflict of interest in medicine. It offers principles to inform the design of policies to identify, limit, and manage conflicts of interest without damaging constructive collaboration with industry. It calls for both short-term actions and long-term commitments by institutions and individuals, including leaders of academic medical centers, professional societies, patient advocacy groups, government agencies, and drug, device, and pharmaceutical companies. Failure of the medical community to take convincing action on conflicts of interest invites additional legislative or regulatory measures that may be overly broad or unduly burdensome. Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice makes several recommendations for strengthening conflict of interest policies and curbing relationships that create risks with little benefit. The book will serve as an invaluable resource for individuals and organizations committed to high ethical standards in all realms of medicine.