Thomas R. Fulda, Alan Lyles, Albert I Wertheimer

Pharmaceutical Public Policy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

As the most common health-care intervention, prescription drug use shares the most important characteristics of the health-care system in the United States. When everything works well, it makes possible breathtakingly successful applications of science to the prevention and cure of human suffering. But everything doesn't always work well. Pharmaceu

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498748513
• Artikelnr.: 45434398

Autorenporträt

Thomas R. Fulda was a federal civil servant for 30 years and held positions at the Social Security Administration and the Health Care Financing Administration. He conducted research on prescription drug pricing, participated in the development and implementation of the Federal Maximum Allowable Cost Program, participated in the planning for the implementation of the prescription drug provisions of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, and was responsible for the implementation of the Medicaid Drug Utilization Review provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. He also worked at the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (Director of Drug Utilization Review), where he managed an expert scientific panel developing drug utilization review criteria. Fulda earned a Health Care Financing Administration Administrator's Citation, received a Secretary's Award for Exceptional Achievement for his work, and, in 1995, was named an honorary pharmacist by the American Pharmaceutical Association.

Alan Lyles is the Henry A. Rosenberg Professor of government, business, and nonprofit partnerships at the University of Baltimore's College of Public Affairs, Baltimore, Maryland, and a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, DC. His professional interests focus on access to pharmaceuticals (policy, benefits, and evidence) and the role(s) of public private arrangements. Professor Lyles serves on the editorial advisory panel of the International Pharmacy Journal and on the editorial advisory board of the Generics and Biosimilar Initiative Journal's International. In 2006, he was visiting chair of pharmacoeconomics, and in 2007 and 2011 he was a Fulbright specialist at the University of Helsinki. He was a student of Shifu Ryan Velivlis and is a life member of the United States Kuo Shu Federation.

Albert I. Wertheimer has had extensive active involvement in the phar

Inhaltsangabe

Policy Process. Federal Legislative Process. Role of Federal Regulations
and How They Are Developed. Access, Quality, and Cost. Why Is Medication
Use Less than Appropriate? Medication Adherence and Health Policy. Good
Governance and Corruption in the Pharmaceutical System. U.S. Food and Drug
Administration. Risk Minimization: A New Regulatory Challenge Directive.
Drug Shortages. Drug Reimportation into the United States. Competition
between Brand-Name and Generic Drugs. Structure and Dynamics of the
Pharmaceutical Industry. Health Policy and Economic Issues in Biotechnology
and Personalized Medicine. Pharmaceutical Promotion in the United States.
Health Technology Assessment. Pharmacoeconomics as a Response to Market
Failure: An International Perspective. Market for Pharmaceuticals. Managed
Care Pharmacy and Pharmacy Benefit Management. Drug Insurance Design and
Management. Electronic Information Technology: Role in Supporting Drug Use
and Policy. Assessing Medicare Part D after 10 Years. Medicaid. Medication
Therapy Management Services. The Affordable Care Act: Potential Impacts on
Pharmaceutical Markets. Role of Government as Regulator, Payer, and
Provider of Care. Department of Veterans Affairs Pharmacy Programs. Public
Health Service. Index.