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Strong Medicine : Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases /

"Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling diseases and could dramatically improve health in poor countries. But developers have little incentive to undertake the costly and risky research needed to develop vaccines. This is partly because the potential consumers are poor, but also because g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kremer, Michael, 1964-
Otros Autores: Glennerster, Rachel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; CONTENTS ; Foreword ; Acknowledgments ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. HEALTH IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES ; The Disease Environment in Low-Income Countries ; Weak Health-Care Infrastructure ; Malaria, Tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.
  • The Impact of Cheap, Simple Technologies 3. THE PAUCITY OF PRIVATE R & D TARGETED TO THE NEEDS OF LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES ; The Extent of R & D Targeted to Low-Income Countries ; The Scientific Potential for New Vaccines ; 4. MARKET AND GOVERNMENT FAILURES.
  • Why Target Foreign Assistance to Vaccine R & D? The Patent Tradeoff ; Low-Income Countries and Intellectual Property ; Social versus Private Return: Some Quantitative Estimates ; The Role of Public Purchases ; 5. THE ROLE OF PUSH PROGRAMS.
  • Meningococcal Meningitis: An Example of a Successful Push Program A Cautionary Tale: The USAID Malaria Vaccine Program ; Incentives under Push Programs ; 6. THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF PULL PROGRAMS ; The Effect of Market Size on Innovation ; The Impact of Financial Incentive Programs.
  • Examples of Pull Programs Stimulating Research Advantages and Limitations of Pull Programs ; 7. PULL PROGRAMS: A MENU ; Commitments to Finance Purchase of Products and Patents ; Patent Extensions on Other Pharmaceuticals as Compensation for Vaccine Development ; Best-Entry Tournaments.