SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ghostwriter, Peer Support, Main Source
19 Apr 2018
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The pharmaceutical industry - pharma for short ;) Big pharma that control over third of the market - 6 in us 4 in europe. Selling patent protected drugs- they"re the only ones who can produce for a certain period of time- in this time they are a monopoly - brand name. After patent run out generic brands make them for much cheaper. Who- list of essential medicines that are for important public health issues (malaria, hiv, tuberculosis) Latest version june 2017- 433 essential medicines- but political choice and how they make determination- the list is still so much shorter than drugs on market. Many thousands of drugs on market world wide. Canada has over 12000 drugs on the market. Canada is only country with universal healthcare but no drug coverage plan. Prices canadians pay for drugs is second highest besides us.
