Pharmaceutical policy and health economics

Pharmaceutical Price Control Policy, Pharmaceutical Innovation, and Health Durability

Background: The increase in R&D and upward trend of R&D/pharmaceutical sales has occurred despite government controlled pharmaceutical price reduction in Japan. This paper identifies the effect of the government’s price control policy on pharmaceutical innovation and evaluates the influence of new chemical entities (NCE) on health

Health Economics and Aging

Objectives: In this paper, aging with its different dimensions is discussed. The characteristics of elderly's life in relation to individual, social, and changes meet aging together with attitudes toward it and major components of elderly are explained. Disease and burden of disease of aging as a central to the areas of Health and Health Economics will be emphasized. The influential factors on ...

The Cycle of Policy Making, Management and Economics of Health System

In any society, health systems should meet health needs of the population in various aspects. The health system should also move towards the system’s predetermined goals in order to establish an effective connection between different cycles of the system from policy-making to implementation by considering the fundamentals of economics.

Health economics and health policy: experiences from New Zealand.

Health economics has had a significant impact on the New Zealand health system over the past 30 years. In this paper, I set out a framework for thinking about health economics, give some historical background to New Zealand and the New Zealand health system, and discuss examples of how health economics has influenced thinking about the organisation of the health sector and priority setting. I c...

Essays in Health Economics and Public Health Policy