Trends in International Nutrition Policy

Generic drugs: international trends and policy developments in Australia.

Public and private third-party payers in many countries encourage or mandate the use of generic drugs. This article examines the development of generics policy in Australia, against the background of a description of international trends in this area, and related experiences of reference pricing programs. The Australian generics market remains underdeveloped due to a historical legacy of small ...

International Trends in Protected Areas Policy and Management

Pursuing International Competitiveness in Iranian Wheat Policy

After the war with Iraq which ended in 1988, Iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on Five-Year National Development Plans. The main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. This paper investigates the extent to which Iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

Nutrition trends in Japan.

The National Nutrition Survey (NNS) in Japan has been undertaken annually since 1946. It was originally intended to provide information on the food and nutrient intake of the Japanese people, with a view to acquiring emergency food supplies from other countries when food shortages caused malnutrition in many Japanese. The food balance sheet (FBS) has been drawn up since 1949 to show the food su...

Announcement of “4th International Clinical Nutrition Congress” in Mashhad, Iran

This article has no abstract. DOI: 10.18502/jfqhc.8.4.8254