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Economic considerations regarding pharmaceutical expenditure in Spain and its financing

In: The Public Financing of Pharmaceuticals

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  • G. López-Casasnovas

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This book provides a complete approach to the economics of financing medicines and policy implications for the efficiency and equity of health systems. In all health systems with majority public financing, pharmaceutical reimbursement is one of the key factors in policies of change and transformation of health services in order to face the future with guarantees of financial sustainability.

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  • G. López-Casasnovas, 2005. "Economic considerations regarding pharmaceutical expenditure in Spain and its financing," Chapters, in: Jaume Puig-Junoy (ed.), The Public Financing of Pharmaceuticals, chapter 10, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    1. Jesús Clemente & Carmen Marcuello & Antonio Montañés, 2008. "Pharmaceutical expenditure, total health‐care expenditure and GDP," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(10), pages 1187-1206, October.
    2. Jorgen Lauridsen & Mickael Bech & Fernando López & Mariluz Sánchez, 2010. "A spatiotemporal analysis of public pharmaceutical expenditure," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 44(2), pages 299-314, April.

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