Medicine Price Surveys, Analyses and Comparisons

Medicine Price Surveys, Analyses and Comparisons establishes guidelines for the study and implementation of pharmaceutical price surveys, analyses, and comparisons. Its contributors evaluate price survey literature, discuss the accessibility and reliability of data sources, and provide a checklist and training kit on conducting price surveys, analyses, and comparisons. Their investigations survey price studies while accounting for the effects of methodologies and explaining regional differences in medicine prices. They also consider policy objectives such as affordable access to medicines and cost-containment as well as options for improving the effectiveness of policies.

• Provides guidance for planning and implementing pharmaceutical pricing policies and systems
• Reviews external price referencing systems
• Explains common baselines for interpreting price surveys
• Defines pharmaceutical price terminology and nomenclature

Policy-makers, policy analysts and advisors, including consultants and international institutions. Researchers interested in doing price studies, or required to do price analyses to feed the results into a larger health economic research work. Graduate and 1st year PhD students studying pharmaco-economics, health economics, pharmacy, public health, and health administration professionals. Pharmaceutical industry

1. Introduction
2. Regional and international comparison of medicine prices
3. Price studies for specific medicines
4. Developments
5. Discussion of methodology and findings
6. Overview of existing methodologies
7. Terminology
8. Medicine price data sources
9. Planning price studies
10. Interpretation of price analyses
11. Price comparison as one pricing
12. Practice of external price referencing
13. Assessment of EPR
14. Policy guidance
15. Policy brief
16. Conclusions