Parallel trade and affordable access to medicines
Eurohealth Volume 15 Number 2, 2009 - 18 September 2009
Available online as PDF file [48p.] at:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/LSEHealthAndSocialCare/LSEHealth/documents/eurohealth/Eurohealth%20v15n2.pdf
- The effects of parallel trade on affordable access to medicines
“…… A stylised demand curve for patented medicines in the EU was constructed and the price and availability of medicines were predicted by comparing the situation in which prices converge with differentiated prices.
Parallel trade causes prices of patented medicines to converge. A single EU price would reduce both the numbers of patients with affordable access to patented medicines and profits by about 25% compared to optimally differentiated prices.
The best option from the point of view of health care policy would be to prohibit the repackaging of medicines and require traceability throughout the supply chain.
This paper is based on research commissioned by the EC to help assess the impact of policy options…”
By Dermot Glynn, Chairman of Europe Economics,
Also in this issue:
- The growth of voluntary health insurance in
- Improving efficiency of allocating public funds to pharmaceuticals:
- A pilot study in the
Snapshots (
- Health impact assessments: is the environment a model?;
- European Parliament report on palliative care;
- Health information technology in the
- Evidence informed decision making articles.
Editorial Team
Editor: David McDaid
Founding Editor: Elias Mossialos
Deputy Editors: Sherry Merkur - Philipa Mladovsky
Assistant Editors: Azusa Sato - Lucia Kossarova
Editorial Board:
Reinhard Busse, Josep Figueras, Walter Holland, Julian Le Grand, Martin McKee, Elias Mossialos
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