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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785042803321

Titolo

Measuring transparency to improve good governance in the public pharmaceutical sector Lebanon [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo, Egypt, : World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2009

ISBN

92-9021-714-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (79 p.)

Disciplina

331

Soggetti

Pharmaceutical industry - Standards - Lebanon

Pharmaceutical policy - Lebanon

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.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Executive summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of the public pharmaceutical sector in Lebanon; 3. Methodology; 4. Results and data presentations; 5. Data analysis and discussion; 6. Recommendations; 7. Conclusions; 8. Resource documents; Annexes

Sommario/riassunto

This report presents the results of a transparency assessment carried out in Lebanon.    It gives a comprehensive assessment of the level of transparency and the level of vulnerability to corruption within the six primary functions of the pharmaceutical sector - registration, inspection, promotion, selection, procurement and distribution of medicines.    The methodology provides both qualitative and quantitative information. Three national investigators, selected by the Ministry of Health, collected data by conducting a series of interviews with 50 carefully selected key informants. The inform