Excessive Medical Spending - Facing the Challenge

Informationen zum Autor Norman J. Temple, Andrew Thompson, Anwar Khan Klappentext Explores why healthcare costs have been increasing. This work includes an examination of over-priced drugs. It contains an explanation of how the drug industry takes billions of dollars from society each year and proposes radical ideas to reign in spending on medicine. Zusammenfassung This work contains a Foreword by Merrill Goozner, Author and Director, Integrity in Science, Center for Science and the Public Interest, Washington DC Inhaltsverzeichnis The cost of medical care: how much is too much? The nuts and bolts of medical research. Conflict of interest: a major problem in medical research. Drug regulation: two paradigms in conflict. The marketing of drugs: how drug companies manipulate the prescribing habits of doctors. Pricing pharmaceutical drugs in the USA. Potential savings from therapeutic substitution of ten of Canada's most dispensed prescription drugs. Statins: is the net being thrown too wide? Modern western medicine: lots of bucks: where's the bang? Genetics! genomic medicine! and achieving better population health: a flawed strategy. Issues in screening for cancer. The Canadian National Breast Screening Study: science meets controversy. Screening for breast cancer: benefits versus costs. Screening for cervical cancer by Pap tests. Paying for what works: the Reference Drug Program as a model for rational policy making. Disease prevention: the neglected alternative. Promoting the health of the medical profession: environmentalism and commercialism in medical education. A proposed new grand strategy: an integrated health system for the 21st century.

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• Autori: Anwar Khan, Khan Anwar, Norman J. Temple, Norman J. Thompson Temple, Temple Norman J., Andrew Thompson, Thompson Andrew
• Con la collaborazione di: Norman J. Temple (Editore), Andrew Thompson (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.01.2007
• EAN: 9781846191688
• ISBN: 978-1-84619-168-8
• Pagine: 216
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Health systems & services, Health systems and services