Prescribing cultures and pharmaceutical policy in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Karen Eggleston.
Prescribing cultures and pharmaceutical policy in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Karen Eggleston.
Prescribing cultures and pharmaceutical policy in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Karen Eggleston.
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Stanford, CA : Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center ; [Washington, D.C.] : Brookings Institution (distributor), 2009.
Date
2009.
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N362.1782/19
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 424 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Michael R. Reich -- Introduction / Karen Eggelston -- 1. Pharmaceutical policy in South Korea / Soonman Kwon -- 2. The economics of pharmaceutical pricing and physician prescribing in Japan / Toshiaki Iizuka -- 3. The political economy of incrementally separating prescription from dispens...
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Publisher
Stanford, CA : Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center ; [Washington, D.C.] : Brookings Institution (distributor), 2009.
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
2009.
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Summary
The first section of this report analyzes pharmaceutical policy in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India. The second section focuses on two cross-cutting themes: differences in "prescribing cultures" and physician dispensing; and the challenge of balancing access to drugs with incentives for innovation -- p. [4] of cover.
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Prescribing cultures and pharmaceutical policy in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Karen Eggleston.
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"This book represents the inagural work of the Asia Health Policy Program (AHPP) at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) at Stanford University" -- ix.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N362.1782/19
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1931368163
9781931368162
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362.1782
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991010381639702626
