1. Improving Use of Medicines : Range of Approaches and the Possible Role of Insurance Systems Dennis Ross-Degnan, ScD Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care WHO Collaborating Center in Pharmaceutical Policy Health and Social Protection: Meeting the Needs of the Poor Vientiane, 10 October 2008
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3. Competing Pharmaceutical Policy Objectives Improving Equitable Access Available to the poor Keeping Costs Affordable To patient and to the health system Encouraging Appropriate Use Necessary, safe, effective, properly taken
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6. Potential Role of Insurance Systems in Complex Pharmaceutical Sector taxes Consumers Providers payments treatment Government (MOH) information standards, payments Drug Industry standards lobbying $$ $$ marketing promotion oversight Consumer Organizations lobbying support information standards, education Professional Organizations lobbying Insurance systems payments payments, controls coverage price information information
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