The Public Financing of Pharmaceuticals

Edited by Jaume Puig-Junoy

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Abstract: This book provides a complete approach to the economics of financing medicines and policy implications for the efficiency and equity of health systems. In all health systems with majority public financing, pharmaceutical reimbursement is one of the key factors in policies of change and transformation of health services in order to face the future with guarantees of financial sustainability.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
ISBN: 9781845420888
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Public Pharmaceutical Expenditure

J. Puig-Junoy

Ch 2 Incentives for innovation in the pharmaceutical market

P. Ibern Regàs

Ch 3 Price regulation systems in the pharmaceutical market

J. Puig-Junoy

Ch 4 Regulation and competition in pharmaceutical markets

Joan-Ramon Borrell, A. Costas Comesa-a and R. Nonell Torres

Ch 5 Mechanisms to encourage price competition in the pharmaceutical market and their effects on efficiency and welfare

J. Rovira Forns and J. Darbà Coll

Ch 6 Reference pricing as a pharmaceutical reimbursement mechanism

G. López-Casasnovas and J. Puig-Junoy

Ch 7 Insurance in public financing of pharmaceuticals

B. González López-Valcárcel

Ch 8 Economic evaluation and pharmaceutical policy

Jose-Luis Pinto-Prades and X. Badía Llach

Ch 9 Prescriber incentives

L. Cabiedes and Vicente Ortun

Ch 10 Economic considerations regarding pharmaceutical expenditure in Spain and its financing

G. López-Casasnovas

Ch 11 Review of economic studies of the pharmaceutical industry published over the last 20 years by Spanish economists

Félix Lobo, M. Caba-as Sáenz and R. González Pérez

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