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Essential Medicines Policies in the World
This special issue belongs to the section “Health Policy“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scope of this special issue is focused on but not limited to the following areas of essential medicine policies:
- Medicine affordability
- Health expenditure and financing
- Health technology assessment
- National health insurance
- Quality and safety
- Research and development
- Regulatory affairs
- Pricing and reimbursement
- Quality use
- Patient access
- Health security
Dr. Jong Hyuk Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- essential medicine
- essential drug
- essential medicine policy
- patient access
- equitable access
- universal health coverage
- health security
- health expenditure
- health insurance
- pharmaceutical expenditure
- affordability
- quality and safety
- quality use
- research and development
- pricing and reimbursement
- health technology assessment
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