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