Emerging Markets

Emerging markets face unique challenges in accessing medicines and medical technologies.

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The Evolution of HTA in Emerging Markets Health Care Systems: Analysis to Support a Policy Response

1 January 2011

This report examines and makes suggestions for the appropriate use of health technology assessment (HTA) in emerging markets. In particulary, it considers how the stage of development…

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Donor Investment Choices: Modeling the Value for Money of Investing in Product Development, Public Private Parnerships as Compared to Other Health Care and Non-Health Care Interventions

1 December 2006

Objective To model the cost-effectiveness for donors of investing in R&D projects into global diseases via public private partnerships for product development (PD PPPs). Methods We…

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Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance

1 November 2006

This Annual Lecture took place on the 10 November 2005 at the Royal College of Physicians and was presented by Kenneth Arrow and Richard Peto.… This…

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Mental Health Economics and Policy in a Global Context

1 December 2003

The purpose of the conference was to locate and promote the role of health economics in mental health policy in low and middle income countries. Health…

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Narrowing the Gap between provision and need for medicines in developing countries

1 February 2000

Health and economic development is positively linked. External investments are needed to break the vicious cycle of poor health and poverty plaguing less developed countries (LDCs).…

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Aids in Africa: Meeting the Challenge through Training Education and Prevention

1 January 1992

AIDS poses a formidable challenge to African policy makers and health professionals. Of the estimated 9 to 11 million cases of HIV infection worldwide, some 7…

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Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries 1981-82

1 July 1984

Two years ago, the Office of Health Economics published a research paper describing some of the activities of eighteen European pharmaceutical companies in the Developing Countries…

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Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries

1 July 1983

The Office of Health Economics has recently widened its scope to take a special interest in the health care problems of the Poor World, with particular…

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Issues in Development: a Guide

5 January 1983

Unlike the great majority of OHE publications, this paper was not researched and written ‘in-house’. It is a minimally edited translation of a study prepared in…