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Subject(s)

• Pharmacy—Research—Economic aspects—Developing countries [Browse]
• Drugs—Research—Economic aspects—Developing countries [Browse]
• Vaccines—Research—Economic aspects—Developing countries [Browse]

Related name

• Glennerster, Rachel [Browse]

Summary note

"Vaccines offer the best hope for controlling diseases and could dramatically improve health in poor countries. But developers have little incentive to undertake the costly and risky research needed to develop vaccines. This is partly because the potential consumers are poor, but also because governments drive down prices." "In Strong Medicine, Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster offer an innovative yet simple solution to this worldwide problem: "Pull" programs to stimulate research. Here's how such programs would work. Funding agencies would commit to purchase viable vaccines if and when they were developed. This would create the incentives for vaccine developers to produce usable products for these neglected diseases. Private firms, rather than funding agencies, would pick which research strategies to pursue. After purchasing the vaccine, funders could distribute it at little or no cost to the afflicted countries."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Health in low-income countries
• 3. The paucity of private R & D targeted to the needs of low-income countries
• 4. Market and government failures
• 5. The role of push programs
• 6. The potential role of pull programs
• 7. Pull programs : a menu
• 8. Determining eligibility
• 9. How much should we promise to pay for a vaccine?
• 10. How should payment be structured?
• 11. Scope of the commitment
• 12. Moving forward with vaccine commitments.

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ISBN

• 0691121133 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
• 9780691121130 ((cl ; : alk. paper))
• 9780691171166 ((pbk.))
• 0691171165 ((pbk.))

LCCN

2004050384

OCLC

55596208

Other standard number

• 99808804286

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