Erschienen in:
03.10.2018 | Editorial
Seeking to introduce a pharmacoeconomics framework in Cyprus
verfasst von:
Panagiotis Petrou
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Public Health
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Ausgabe 3/2019
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Excerpt
Health agencies face an array of profound challenges. Among them, the need to exert control over surging pharmaceutical expenditures is imperative (Dubois et al.
2000). If pharmaceutical expenditure is left unchecked, it threatens to jeopardise health systems’ fiscal sustainability and violate equity and solidarity, which are fundamental principles in health care provision. Pharmaceutical care has significantly contributed towards life’s expectancy increase and morbidity reduction, so health agencies must balance the need to keep affordable prices and give patients access to innovative products (Lichtenberg
2012). …