The Politics of Pharmaceutical Policy Reform A Study of Generic Drug Regulation in Brazil /

• Main Author: Massard da Fonseca, Elize (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science, 26
• Subjects: Political economy.; Economic policy.; Social policy.; Economics.; Social Policy.; Economic Policy.; Political Economy.

Brazil is renowned worldwide for its remarkable reforms in pharmaceutical regulation, which have enhanced access to essential medicines while lowering drug costs. This book innovates by analysing the generic drug  reform in Brazil, demonstrating that pharmaceutical regulation is only partially influ...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Contextualising drug regulation
• The generic drug reform in Brazil
• Assessing the generic drug regulatory process in the 2000s: governmental intervention, market demand and local pharmaceutical industries
• Public production of medicines and HIV/AIDS activists: new actors in the generic drug regulatory process
• Conclusion
• Postscript
• Index
• References
• Annex - Notes on research methodology.