Access to Medicines in India
Sakthivel Selvaraj
About the Book
This book discusses in great detail the critical barriers to access to medicines in India despite the country ascending towards the role of ‘pharmacy of the global south’. It highlights several themes, considered as impediments to access to medicines while at the same time proposing viable policy options. Some of these themes include inadequate investment in public health care, inefficient and unreliable procurement and distribution of drugs, unaffordable drug prices and pharmaceutical patents. The book calls for scaling up investment and to replicate the success of a ‘centralised procurement and decentralised distribution’ model of drugs, as in the state of Tamil Nadu, which will pave the way for universal access to essential medicines in India.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
Sakthivel Selvaraj is with Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi, as a Senior Health Economist. He is currently engaged in teaching and research in the area of health care financing and pharmaceutical economics.
Dinesh Abrol is Professor in the Institute of Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi and Visiting Professor in the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research work focuses on the study of S&T policy, intellectual property rights, systems of innovation and industrial development.
K.M. Gopakumar is the Legal Advisor and Senior Researcher with the Third World Network (TWN), New Delhi. His area of focus is the global intellectual property regime and its impact on developing countries.
Contributors
Maulik R. Chokshi
Biswajit Dhar
Habib Hasan Farooqui
Reji K. Joseph
Anup K. Karan
Preeti Kumar
Pramod Prajapati
Nidhi Singh
Contents in Detail
List of Tables and Figures
About the Editors/Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. The Indian Health System:
Current Trends and Patterns
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ
2. Economic Barriers to Access to
Medicines in India
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ, ANUP KARAN,
MAULIK CHOKSHI, HABIB HASAN FAROOQUI
and PREETI KUMAR
3. The Price Barrier to Access to Medicines
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ and HABIB HASAN FAROOQUI
4. Recent Performance of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
BISWAJIT DHAR and REJI K. JOSEPH
5. Patent and Access to Medicine:
Constraints for the Use of Flexibilities
K.M. GOPAKUMAR
6. Rational Use of Medicines in India
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ and HABIB HASAN FAROOQUI
7. Recent Trends in India’s Pharmaceutical Innovation
DINESH ABROL, PRAMOD PRAJAPATI
and NIDHI SINGH
8. Access to Essential Vaccines in India
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ and HABIB HASAN FAROOQUI
9. Pharmaceutical Regulation in India
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ
10. Conclusion and Future Policy Directions
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ, DINESH ABROL
and K.M. GOPAKUMAR
11. Post Script
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ, DINESH ABROL
and K.M. GOPAKUMAR
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2014 |
| Number of Pages | 260 |
| ISBN |
9789332701441 |
Academic Foundation (AF), based in New Delhi, is India’s leading independent publisher of academic/scholarly books in Social Sciences, specialising in Economics—Development Economics and Indian Economy in particular, and allied subjects.
About the Book
This book discusses in great detail the critical barriers to access to medicines in India despite the country ascending towards the role of ‘pharmacy of the global south’. It highlights several themes, considered as impediments to access to medicines while at the same time proposing viable policy options. Some of these themes include inadequate investment in public health care, inefficient and unreliable procurement and distribution of drugs, unaffordable drug prices and pharmaceutical patents. The book calls for scaling up investment and to replicate the success of a ‘centralised procurement and decentralised distribution’ model of drugs, as in the state of Tamil Nadu, which will pave the way for universal access to essential medicines in India.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s)
Sakthivel Selvaraj is with Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi, as a Senior Health Economist. He is currently engaged in teaching and research in the area of health care financing and pharmaceutical economics.
Dinesh Abrol is Professor in the Institute of Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi and Visiting Professor in the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research work focuses on the study of S&T policy, intellectual property rights, systems of innovation and industrial development.
K.M. Gopakumar is the Legal Advisor and Senior Researcher with the Third World Network (TWN), New Delhi. His area of focus is the global intellectual property regime and its impact on developing countries.
Contributors
Maulik R. Chokshi
Biswajit Dhar
Habib Hasan Farooqui
Reji K. Joseph
Anup K. Karan
Preeti Kumar
Pramod Prajapati
Nidhi Singh
Contents in Detail
List of Tables and Figures
About the Editors/Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. The Indian Health System:
Current Trends and Patterns
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ
2. Economic Barriers to Access to
Medicines in India
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ, ANUP KARAN,
MAULIK CHOKSHI, HABIB HASAN FAROOQUI
and PREETI KUMAR
3. The Price Barrier to Access to Medicines
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ and HABIB HASAN FAROOQUI
4. Recent Performance of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
BISWAJIT DHAR and REJI K. JOSEPH
5. Patent and Access to Medicine:
Constraints for the Use of Flexibilities
K.M. GOPAKUMAR
6. Rational Use of Medicines in India
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ and HABIB HASAN FAROOQUI
7. Recent Trends in India’s Pharmaceutical Innovation
DINESH ABROL, PRAMOD PRAJAPATI
and NIDHI SINGH
8. Access to Essential Vaccines in India
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ and HABIB HASAN FAROOQUI
9. Pharmaceutical Regulation in India
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ
10. Conclusion and Future Policy Directions
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ, DINESH ABROL
and K.M. GOPAKUMAR
11. Post Script
SAKTHIVEL SELVARAJ, DINESH ABROL
and K.M. GOPAKUMAR
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2014 |
| Number of Pages | 260 |
| ISBN |
9789332701441 |
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