National pharmaceuticals policy

The pharmaceutical industry and its practices of testing, safety, and marketing have been a controversial topic among U.S. citizens. In the United States, pharmaceuticals are the most government regulated products, yet there is still no regulation on the cost of prescription drugs. The prices of medication can go up overnight if the company chooses, which I believe to be unfair and unethical. If a pharmaceutical company that manufactures something considered to be "life-saving", then I think…

direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising). While pharmaceutical companies have been advertising prolifically for decades, 1997 brought on the current onslaught of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCPA) by dramatically reducing the amount of restrictions on pharmaceutical advertising. All said, the current regulatory climate benefits the American Big Pharma behemoth, and as a result, that behemoth spends billions of revenue dollars on advertising. People Can’t Afford…

raises an ethical concern because the patients’ health is in jeopardy for taking medications that they do not need and they are now burden with the cost of that prescription drug. Often times, there is pressure on healthcare providers from the big pharmaceutical companies to sell their drugs to patients. Leonard J. Weber, a professor at the University of Detroit, talks about the ethics of the prescription drug marketing, in his book, Profits before People? Ethical Standards and the Marketing of…

The Influence of Politics on Health Care Regulations, Laws and Policies Politics is always a major influence in any society and affects its social economic activities that include health. As mentioned, all aspects relating to laws in health care move through the policy formulation process where they transform from being a mere proposal to an act that is enacted under the influence of lawmakers or elected officials or groups. When making laws, politics plays a major role where the political…

strategies and specific policy measures of health care reform, and all team members come from public sectors related to health and finance (Zheng et al 2010). One year…

Plasari believes that opening the markets to foreign prescription drugs would allow for counterfeit, cheap reproductions, expired drugs, etc. Obviously these less than quality drugs would be harmful to the recipients. Countries that allow for pharmaceutical importation from other countries are now facing a large counterfeit drug problem. According to the World Health Organization, estimated over 200,000 fatalities were causes as a result of counterfeit…

Introduction In the year of 2004, 2.5 billion dollars of annual sales hit the blockbuster market on a pharmaceutical drug named Vioxx (Rofecoxib), which thousands of physicians prescribed to their patients worldwide (Medscape Medical News, 2004; Topol, 2004). The drug has shown an increase in heart attacks and strokes with suspiciousness to why leaders did not act earlier to withdraw the pharmaceutical drug from the market timely (Topol, 2004). The leaders involved were faced with more than a…

Introduction to Indian Pharmaceutical Industry 1.1 Introduction The Indian pharmaceutical industry holding the top most position among all science based technology spread with wide ranging of technicalities in the complex field of drug manufacturing and drug innovations. The Indian pharmaceutical industry stands fourth in terms of volume and attained the fourteen in terms of value. Export of Indian pharmaceutical industry works as a fuel for the growth of the industry. The Indian…

Health policies are laws, rules, or regulations that are created or enforced by the government to achieve specific health care goals (World Health Organization, 2015). These policies are intended to influence behaviors of a population in hopes to better the health of society. Health policies can be divided into two groups: allocative or regulatory. This paper will compare and contrast allocative and regulatory policies as they relate to dental public health. Allocative Policies provide a…

A human resources policy manual, also colloquially known as an “employee handbook,” is a document which sets the tone for the company’s overall employee relationship philosophy. This document informs employees of the policies and procedures of the company who has hired them and some of their rights and responsibilities to this company (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin, & Cardy, 2016; Guerin & DelPo, 2005; Lawson, 1998). There is no particular law that requires an employer to publish a policy manual. That…