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Searching for Magic Bullets reveals the quest of consumers, health professionals, and drug developers to find safer and faster methods of bringing new medications to the marketplace. Authors Basara and Montagne explore the current drug development and approval processes, their strengths and weaknesses, and the mechanisms by which patients and organizations evade these processes. Readers learn about the fundamentals of traditional and nontraditional drug discovery and development as they occur in the U.S., as well as the views of consumers, patients, and health professionals. Specific case studies of non-traditional drug development and acquisition strategies are highlighted, including AIDS m...
Marketing to Pharmacists: Understanding Their Role and Influence will help pharmaceutical marketers better understand pharmaceutical practice in order to develop better relationships with pharmacists and effectively market products. This book examines important trends in pharmaceutical health care, including patient education and compliance, quality of life assessment, disease management, and cost containment strategies that assist pharmacists in providing better care to patients which results in increased sales for your business. From Marketing to Pharmacists, you?ll learn how pharmacists influence product selection, monitor drug therapy, and serve as a primary source of patient education i...
Readers of Studies in Pharmaceutical Economics learn the value of economic research in forming health policy while they develop an understanding of the various factors that influence the cost of pharmaceutical care for patients, pharmacists, physicians, and manufacturers. Pharmaceutical economists, product managers, and policymakers learn different methods for controlling costs, patient compliance, therapeutic outcomes, and the effects of restrictions on prescription drugs on the use and cost of other health care services. Above all, readers will find this book provides them with the necessary `know-how’for survival in the dynamic and competitive health care marketplace. The chapters of St...
From Pharmacoeconomics in Perspective: A Primer on Research, Techniques, and Information you will discover comprehensive explanations of principles in this sophisticated field through up-to-date research overviews, analysis types, research techniques, information evaluations. This unique book is primarily nonmathematical and highlights the qualitative details underpinning pharmacoeconomics for pharmacists and other medical professionals. This information is also a must for graduate students who need guidance through today's complicated pharmacy environment. Pharmacoeconomics in Perspective addresses a diverse yet increasingly growing slice of the healthcare environment where noneconomists ar...
Examine the global pharmaceutical industry and the effect of national, regulatory, economic, and market environments on the competitiveness of the industry! This unique book is the only empirical study that examines the effects of the national environment on the competitiveness of a country's pharmaceutical industry. This informative book explores such topics as the types of comparative advantages that firms use for developing competitive advantages and what strategic choices firms should make when collaborating with international firms. Public policy implications with respect to the economic environment are also discussed to give you a complete look at the international pharmaceutical indus...
In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly, and put men on the moon. In Government's Greatest Achievements, Paul C. Light explores the federal government's most successful accomplishments over the previous five decades and anticipates the most significant challenges of the next half century. While some successes have come ...
Drugs of Natural Origin gives you a detailed model of the value of wild biological resources for pharmaceutical research and development. Author Anthony Artuso presents several decision models and analytical techniques that you can use to asses the economics of biochemical prospecting efforts whether you're part of a private corporation, nonprofit research institute, developing country government, or international organization.
Leading scholars in the field of health economics evaluate the role of incentives in health and health-care decision making from the perspectives of both supply and demand. A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the rate of return pharmaceutical manufacturers expect on their investments in research and development, or disincentives, such as increases in copayments patients must make when they visit physicians or are admitted to hospitals. In this volume, leading scholars in health economics...
Social and Behavioral Aspects of Pharmaceutical Care takes known social and behavioral science principles and applies them to pharmacy practice. This allows readers who are training to deliver or already delivering pharmaceutical care to enhance their communication, counseling, and patient education skills. While working through this superb text, students and practitioners will develop optimal skills as problemsolvers, therapeutic consultants, patient educators, and counselors as they learn how to enhance patient compliance, negate stigma, and help patients become more comfortable with their medical situations. The instructor?s manual that comes with the text is filled with exercises that hi...
Looks at rare diseases, such as Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, and sickle-cell anemia, which are neglected by researchers and drug manufacturers for fiscal, political, and practical reasons.