Making Medicines in Africa : The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health

Making Medicines in Africa The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a st...

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Other Authors: Banda, Geoffrey (auth), Mackintosh, Maureen. editor (editor), Banda, Geoffrey. editor, Wamae, Watu. editor, Tibandebage, Paula. editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan 2015
2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:International Political Economy Series,
Subjects:
Economic policy.
International relations.
Pharmacology.
Political economy.
Ethnology—Africa.
International economics.
Economic Policy.
International Relations.
Pharmacology/Toxicology.
International Political Economy.
African Culture.
International Economics.
Life Sciences
Economics
International Relations
International Political Economy
Political Economy
Development
African Studies
African Economics
Pharmacology and Toxicology
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009852238706719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: African Industrial Development, Values and Health Care
  • Part I The Pharmaceutical Industry in Africa
  • 1 Making Medicines in Africa: An Historical Political Economy Overview
  • 2 Pharmaceuticals in Kenya: The Evolution of Technological Capabilities
  • 3 Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Decline in Tanzania: How Possible Is a Turnaround to Growth?
  • 4 Bringing Industrial and Health Policies Closer: Reviving Pharmaceutical Production in Ethiopia
  • 5 South-South Collaboration in Pharmaceuticals: Manufacturing Anti-retroviral Medicines in Mozambique
  • 6 Can Foreign Firms Promote Local Production of Pharmaceuticals in Africa?
  • 7 Raising the Technological Level: The Scope for API, Excipients, and Biologicals Manufacture in Africa
  • Part II Industrialization for Health
  • 8 Health Systems as Industrial Policy: Building Collaborative Capabilities in the Tanzanian and Kenyan Health Sectors and Their Local Suppliers
  • 9 The Dissemination of Local Health Innovations: Political Economy Issues in Brazil
  • 10 Healthy Industries and Unhealthy Populations: Lessons from Indian Problem-Solving
  • Part III Industrial Policies and Health Needs
  • 11 Policies to Control Prices of Medicines: Does the South African Experience Have Lessons for Other African Countries?
  • 12 Pharmaceutical Standards in Africa: The Road to Improvement and Their Role in Technological Capability Upgrading
  • 13 Innovative Procurement for Health and Industrial Development
  • 14 Industry Associations and the Changing Politics of Making Medicines in South Africa
  • 15 Finance and Incentives to Support the Development of National Pharmaceutical Industries
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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