LEADER 03676nam 22005175 450 001 9910298518303321 005 20200920091129.0 010 $a3-319-12169-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-12169-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000311770 035 $a(EBL)1965186 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001407901 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11933637 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001407901 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11432056 035 $a(PQKB)10614099 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-12169-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1965186 035 $a(PPN)183149254 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000311770 100 $a20141205d2015 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPharmaceutical Prices in the 21st Century$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar 205 $a1st ed. 2015. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Adis,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (410 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-319-12168-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. 327 $aIntroduction -- Reference pricing strategies -- Differential pricing -- Prices of vaccines. 330 $aThe book is an essential, comprehensive text onglobal drug pricing and covers a range of pharmaceutical pricing issues. It has twenty-two chapters in total;nineteenof which are case studieson an array of high, middle, and low income countries. The final three chaptersdiscussvalue-based pricing, innovation, prices and the pharmaceutical industry and the link betweenpharmaceutical policy and pricing. As the pharmaceutical market continues to expand, a number of pharmaceutical pricing strategies have been employed to control drug expenditures. The book explores this phenomenon further and willserve a valuable resource for policy makers, funders, social insurance institutions and drug companies.  About the author Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar, PhD is the Head of Pharmacy Practice at the School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand. A pharmacist by training and a PhD in pharmaceutical policy, Dr Babar is a recipient of the prestigious ?Research Excellence Award? from the University of Auckland. His research program covers areas related to pharmaceutical policy and practice, encompassing access to and affordability of medicines, issues related to medicine pricing and pharmacoeconomics. Dr Babar has delivered invited lectures at Boston University School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, the Austrian Health Institute and the Universities of Reading and Kingston. He has also acted as a consultant for the World Health Organization, Health Action International, the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) and the Pharmaceutical Management Agency of New Zealand in the area of medicines pricing and policies. Dr Babar is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, www.joppp.org and can be reached at z.babar@auckland.ac.nz. 606 $aHealth economics 606 $aHealth Economics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/W35000 615 0$aHealth economics. 615 14$aHealth Economics. 676 $a330 676 $a338.473621 702 $aBabar$b Zaheer-Ud-Din$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910298518303321 996 $aPharmaceutical Prices in the 21st Century$92528991 997 $aUNINA