Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceutical Policy in the Asia-Pacific Reviews

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Release: 2009-09-17
Publisher: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1931368163
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Pharmaceutical policies are interlinked globally, yet deeply rooted in local culture. Prescribing Cultures examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific.

The first section of this timely book—which includes a foreword by Michael Reich of Harvard University—addresses pharmaceutical policy in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India. The second section focuses on two crosscutting themes: differences in "prescribing cultures," especially among physicians, who are the primary dispensers of medicine in Asia, and the challenge of balancing access to drugs with incentives for innovation.

The book's contributors discuss important issues for U.S. policy, notably drug imports from Asia, regulation of global supply chains to assure drug safety and quality, and new legislation to encourage development of drugs for neglected diseases. In Prescribing Cultures, pharmaceuti Download Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceutical Policy in the Asia-Pacific for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific: Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies) Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2012-09-04
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0415575435
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Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of infectious diseases. This "double disease burden" poses demanding questions concerning the organisation of health care, allocation of scarce resources and strategies for disease prevention, control and treatment; and it threatens not only improvement in health status but economic development in the many poorer countries of the Asia Pacific region. This book presents an historical account of the development of the double disease burden in Asia and the Pacific, a region which has experienced great economic, social, demographic and political change. With in-depth analysis of more than fifteen countries, this volume examines the impact of the double disease burden on health care regimes, resour Download Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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