Pharmaceuticals: Access, Cost, Pricing, and Directions for the Future. 13th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy [PDF]
Prescription drug expenditures make up less than 10 percent of total personal health care expenditures in the United States, but over the last decade the amount that Americans spend on prescription drugs has grown much faster than any other component of ...
Patricia M. Danzon, Stephen B. Soumerai
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A comparison of attitudes toward cognitive enhancement and legalized doping in sport in a community sample of Australian adults [PDF]
, 2012 Background: This article compares public attitudes toward the use of prescription drugs for cognitive enhancement with the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport.
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Drugs research: an overview of evidence and questions for policy [PDF]
, 2010 In 2001 the Joseph Rowntree Foundation embarked upon a programme of research that explored the problem of illicit drugs in the UK. The research addressed many questions that were often too sensitive for the government to tackle.
Lloyd, C., McKeganey, N.
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The Impact of the Medicare Drug Benefit on Health Care Spending by Older Households [PDF]
This report uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey from 2004 to 2006 as well as data from the Congressional Budget Office to analyze the savings in prescription drug spending for seniors as a result of the Medicare ...
Ben Zipperer, Dean Baker
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An Exploratory Analysis of Pharmaceutical Price Disparities and Their Implications Among Six Developed Nations [PDF]
, 2006 In our study of 43 drugs, prescription drug prices in several wealthy nations (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K.) were much lower than in the U.S. on average, well below relative per capita GDP. There was relatively little difference among
Elizabeth DuPre +2 more
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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising in Pharmaceutical Markets [PDF]
We study effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) in a mar- ket with two pharmaceutical firms providing horizontally dierentiated (branded) drugs.
Kurt R Brekke, Michael Kuhn
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Editorial: Misuse and abuse of prescription drugs in custodial settings. [PDF]
Front Psychiatry, 2023 Pirani F +3 more
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The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, & Modernization Act of 2003: Are We Playing the Lottery With Healthcare Reform? [PDF]
, 2004 With millions of Americans unable to cope with the rising costs of prescription drugs, and many even forced to go without health insurance, the mounting pressure on Congress to enact major healthcare reform culminated in the Medicare Prescription Drug ...
Ganz, Melissa
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