Regulating pharmaceuticals in Europe : striving for efficiency, equity, and quality / edited by Elias Mossialos, Monique Mrazek, Tom Walley.

Maidenhead, Berkshire : Open University Press, 2004.

xix, 368 pages : illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Regulating pharmaceuticals in Europe : an overview / Elias Mossialos, Tom Walley and Monique Mrazek -- The politics of pharmaceuticals in the European Union / Govin Permanand and Christa Altenstetter -- The European Community dimension : coordinating divergence / Leigh Hancher -- The role of the EMEA in regulating pharmaceutical products / Silvio Garattini and VIttorio Bertele' -- Measuring, monitoring and evaluating policy outcomes in the pharmaceutical sector / Panos Kanavos ... [et al.] -- Regulating pharmaceutical prices in the European Union / Monique Mrazek and Elias Mossialos -- Reimbursement of pharmaceuticals in the European Union / Alistair McGuire, Michael Drummond and Frans Rutten -- Good prescribing practice / Steve Chapman, Pierre Durieux and Tom Walley -- Patients and their medicines / Colin Bradley, Ebba Holme Hansen and Sjoerd Kooiker -- Financial incentives and prescribing / Tom Walley and Elais Mossialos -- Regulating pharmaceutical distribution and retail pharmacy in Europe / David Taylor, Monique Mrazek and Elias Mossialos -- Hospital pharmacies / Steve Hudson -- Influencing demand for drugs through cost sharing / Sarah Thomson and Elias Mossialos -- The off-patent pharmaceutical market / Christine M. Bond ... [et al.] -- The implications of pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics for drug development and health care / Munir Pirmohamed and Graham Lewis -- Should we pay for lifestyle drugs? / Tom Walley -- Alternative medicines in Europe / Edzard Ernst and Anna Dixon -- The pharmaceutical sector and regulation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe / Monique Mrazek ... [et al.] -- Access to pharmaceuticals and regulation in the Commonwealth of Independent States / Moninque Mrazek and Armin Fidler -- A framework for containing costs fairly / Donald W. Light and Tom Walley.