Making medicines affordable : a national imperative

Making medicines affordable a national imperative

The United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive pr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores Corporativos: Committee on Ensuring Patient Access to Affordable Drug Therapies, author (author), Board on Health Care Services, author, Health and Medicine Division, author, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, author
Otros Autores: Augustine, Norman R., editor (editor), Madhavan, Guruprasad, editor, Nass, Sharyl J., editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press 2018.
Materias:
Drugs > Prices > United States.
Health services accessibility > Economic aspects > United States.
United States
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009621947006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The affordability conundrum
  • Complexity in action
  • Factors influencing affordability
  • Strategies to improve affordability and availability
  • References
  • Appendixes.

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