Poor quality pharmaceuticals in global public health

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Poor quality pharmaceuticals in global public health

Satoru Kimura, Yasuhide Nakamura

(Trust: interdisciplinary perspectives, v. 5)

Springer, c2020

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Includes bibliographical references

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内容説明

This book aims to clarify the global aspects of poor quality pharmaceuticals, generic products in particular, becoming complicated through the process of IMPACT (International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce) organized by the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2006. The findings from this book provide a long-term perspective to policymakers. This book discusses from the following points: industrial standardization, healthcare market accessibility, motivation on supply side, WHO medicines policy and intellectual property rights. Standardization regulates the quality and enabled the generic medicines spreading to developing/emerging countries through technology transfer. However, quality is a part of cost and reflected to price. When a healthcare service market is divided according to wealth gap, compliance to standardization for quality on supply side is divided accordingly. Thus, poor quality pharmaceuticals are prevalent worldwide. Generic pharmaceuticals are essential resources in public health. The WHO has been involved in the dispute around the intellectual property rights under its intention to promote the new drug development for neglected diseases. Global pandemic of AIDs is a critical factor to accelerate the confusion. This created feelings of distrust among developing/emerging countries against developed countries if the WHO was in favour of developed countries. In addition to that, an easy and optimistic start of IMPACT stirred up conflicts of interests in the international community. The problem of poor quality pharmaceuticals became more complicated through the conflicts on intellectual property rights; patented drugs to generic drugs. A key for quality generic products is the formation of a single healthcare service market where good motivation on supply side together with fair competitiveness with patented pharmaceuticals and equitable access to services (both for the rich and the poor) are ensured. Political commitment to investment and regulatory infrastructure for the market is crucial.

目次

Preface.- Global aspect of imitated products and poor quality pharmaceuticals.- Problem awareness among the WHO and other major international organizations.- Precedent academic works and media reports.- Bias or misleading by the WHO?.- Standardization and its advantages in globalization.- Global events associated with modern medicines.- WHO medicines policy in public health.- IMPACT and conflicts of international society.- Case study I: Access to medicines in Indonesia.- Case study II: Supply side of medicines in India.- Case study III: Health-care service market in Japan.- An interpretation and lessons to learn.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB2985908X
  • ISBN
    • 9789811520884
  • 出版国コード
    si
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Singapore
  • ページ数/冊数
    xxiii, 216 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
  • 親書誌ID
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