Global Pharmaceutical Policy: Ensuring Medicines for Tomorrow's World

by Frederick M. Abbott and Graham Dukes

Pharmaceuticals play a central role in health care throughout the world. The pharmaceutical industry is beset with difficulties as increasing research and development expenditure yields fewer new treatments. Public and private budgets strain under the weight of high prices and limited access. The world's poor see little effort to address diseases prevalent in less affluent societies, while the world's wealthy are overusing prescription drugs, risking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848440901
• ISBN13: 9781848440906
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages