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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464916403321

Titolo

In sickness and in health : the future of medicine : added value & global access / / editor, Marleen Wynants ; editorial board, Lieven Annemans [and five others] ; book designer Liz Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brussels, Belgium : , : VUBPress, , 2009

©2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Collana

Crosstalks

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Medical care

Health services accessibility

Biology - Research

Pharmaceutical industry

Medical economics

Needs assessment

World health

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Front ""; ""Table of contents""; ""Part one""; ""The Future of Health Care � A Global Perspective""; ""Unmet medical needs: only cooperation between all partners will lead to solutions""; ""Access to innovative medicines and orphan drugs""; ""The Increasing Need for Independent Research""; ""The cost and added value of personalized medicine""; ""Breaking the deadlock of budgetary autism: what are the paradigms for future health care organization in Belgium?""; ""Part two""; ""WILLINGNESS TO PAY AND SOLIDARITY""; ""Notes from a Traveler on the Road to Cell Therapy in Diabetes""

""Sharing responsibility in the discovery, development and delivery of medicines""""Why health care systems are not patient-centered and what this means""; ""PHYSICIANS AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY : A SENSITIVE ISSUE""; ""Part three""; ""Common goals to guarantee accessible health care: a potential win-win situation or just a (bad)



dream ?""; ""Co-Payment and Future Socio-Fiscal Models""; ""Why We Need A New Approach to Pharmaceutical Innovation: A Pragmatic Answer to a Moral Question""; ""Challenges and opportunities of Cancer clinical research at Pan-European Level""

""Open source drug discovery: the Tropical Disease Initiative""""EPILOGUE""; ""Cradle to Grave""; ""LIST OF PICTURES""; ""Index""