Download or read book How Can Voluntary Cross border Collaboration in Public Procurement Improve Access to Health Technologies in Europe written by Jaime Espín-Balbino and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. There is a growing interest in further developing cross-border collaboration in the field of health, both at a bilateral and a multilateral level. This is supported by European Union (EU) legislation and policies, and extends to improving access to health technologies.2. Changes in health technologies markets, such as the generalization of managed entry agreements (MEAs) and the prevailing lack of price transparency - particularly in price discounts - require different approaches to those applied in the past.3. There is a sound rationale for increased voluntary collaboration between countries in the procurement of health technologies: to enhance transparency through better information sharing to enable cross-country learning by sharing experience to strengthen bargaining power and mitigate overly high transaction costs by pooling skills, capacities and through joint negotiations to ensure sustainable access to health technologies by sharing resources through cross-border exchange of products in short supply.4. However, in practice, developing sustainable cross-border collaboration in procurement seems to be challenging. Experiences in Europe are still limited and too recent to really allow clear lessons to be drawn about their effectiveness and impact.5. Nevertheless, it is clear that related initiatives would require strong political commitment and mutual trust between purchasing partners in order to succeed. It is therefore advisable that they be built progressively, starting with collaboration in information sharing and knowledge exchange, before moving towards joint purchasing activities.
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Download or read book OECD Health Policy Studies Pharmaceutical Innovation and Access to Medicines written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews the important role of medicines in health sytems, describes recent trends in pharmaceutical expenditure and financing, and summarises the approaches used by OECD countries to determine coverage and pricing.
Download or read book Enhancing Regional Health Cooperation under CAREC 2030 written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting regional cooperation in the health sector is an operational priority of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Strategy 2030. This scoping study assesses the potential of CAREC to promote regional cooperation and integration in the health sector to mitigate risks and develop national health systems. The study specifically reviews the burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors, along with the progress and challenges in health systems development in the CAREC region. Based on the assessment, the study recommends strengthening regional health security; developing health systems through regional cooperation; and improving health services for migrants, mobile populations, and border communities.
Download or read book Switzerland and the EU written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes the relationship between Switzerland and the EU so challenging? For both parties, mutual relations are of crucial importance, not least economically. As a result of the Swiss voters’ rejection of the European Economic Area 30 years ago, there is at present a large number of agreements that provide for Switzerland's partial participation in the EU's internal market as well as other matters. At the same time, there has now for more than a decade been an increasing degree of institutional and legal uncertainty. The present volume offers an inventory of different sides of this special relationship, which is interesting also in a comparative context.
Download or read book How Can Structured Cooperation Between Countries Address Health Workforce Challenges Related to Highly Specialized Health Care written by Marieke Kroezen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Resolving health workforce challenges and improving cooperation between health professionals makes it more likely that patients will receive high-quality specialized care in their own country.2. Voluntary structured cross-border cooperation can help address the health workforce challenges that currently force patients to travel to find appropriate care.3. Structured cooperation works at different levels (linking countries; health care or training bodies; and/or clusters of organizations and individuals) but is always influenced by the institutional framework in which it takes place and the underlying European and national legal and policy frameworks.4. Evaluation of different models of structured cooperation is still scarce but policy-makers can enhance the chances of structured cooperation succeeding by reviewing the five main groups of factors that can enable or block success, specifically: legal factors including differences between jurisdictions on eligibility or licensing of products and medicines; political factors and the commitment to making exchanges work; economic factors including price and wage differences and the availability of EU funding; sociocultural factors and issues like trust, communication and language barriers which influence patient preferences and impact the level and quality of knowledge and information exchange that can be achieved; and organizational factors including context, the type of delivery system and any existing (informal) networks and relations.5. Policy-makers at a European and national level can support structured cooperation and address health workforce challenges in highly specialized care by: Building highly specialized care capacity throughout the EU through structured postgraduate training exchanges as a cross-border cooperation activity;Tailoring all structured cooperation to the context in which it takes place; Supporting successful initiatives on a structural basis, with political and financial support from domestic authorities and/or the EU; Using the grassroots experience of structured cooperation in highly specialized health care to inform macro-level policies when appropriate; Promoting the exchange of good practices in cross-border cooperation in (highly specialized) health care, not least as a way of inspiring health system actors to overcome health workforce challenges to the benefit of patients and health professionals.
Download or read book Global Pharmaceutical Policy written by Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicines are vital in improving patient health outcomes and pharmaceutical policy is a fundamental component of any health system. However, the global pharmaceutical policy is ever-evolving and data and quality ‘research-based information’ in this field are scarce. This book fills this gap and provides up-to-date empirical information and evidence-based synthesis. It focuses on pertinent key issues in global pharmaceutical policy including medicines safety, generic medicines, pharmaceutical supply chain, medicines financing, access and affordability of medicines, rational use of medicines, pharmacy health services research and access to vaccines and biological products. Featuring policy case studies from varied countries such as Mexico, Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Pakistan, this book comprises a valuable and comprehensive resource for students, funders, policymakers, academics, and researchers interested in this field.
Download or read book Assessing Health System Performance Proof of Concept for a HSPA Dashboard of Key Indicators written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report, jointly developed by the European Observatory, OECD, and WHO Europe, serves as a proof of concept for a Health Systems Performance Assessment (HSPA) dashboard. HSPA is pivotal for health system transformation, providing policymakers with key indicators to identify and address system performance issues. This brief represents a step towards more policy-friendly dashboards, emphasizing the need for a focused set of HSPA indicators aligned with policy goals. The brief highlights the alignment and complementarity of the WHO-Observatory global HSPA framework and OECD's renewed framework, which aid policymakers in navigating health systems with actionable, policy-relevant indicators. These frameworks establish connections between performance indicators, health system functions, and overarching goals, supporting a coherent policy dashboard. Tracer indicators, like workforce, digital health, and service delivery outcomes, are emphasized as crucial for assessing key policy areas. The report underscores the importance of investing in data collection and infrastructure at national and international levels to make HSPA effective. It advocates for continuous improvement and collaboration among major international organizations, including WHO, OECD, EU, and the Observatory, to align methodologies and support informed policy decision-making.
Download or read book Trade Therapy written by World Bank;World Trade Organization and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has exposed the upsides and downsides of international trade in medical goods and services. Open trade can increase access to medical services and goods—and the critical inputs needed to manufacture them—improve quality and variety, and reduce costs. However, excessive concentration of production, restrictive trade policies, supply chain disruptions, and regulatory divergence can jeopardize the ability of public health systems to respond to pandemics and other health crises. Trade Therapy: Deepening Cooperation to Strengthen Pandemic Defenses, coordinated by Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta at the World Bank and Marc Bacchetta and Joscelyn Magdeleine at the World Trade Organization, provides new data on trade in medical goods and services and medical value chains, surveys the evolving policy landscape before and during the pandemic, and proposes an action plan to improve trade policies and deepen international cooperation to deal with future pandemics. As the COVID-19 pandemic lingers, the focus of policy action is on the response, which includes actions aimed at removing bottlenecks and providing government support to promote equitable access to vaccines. As the emergency subsides, the focus should shift to prevention and preparedness. Steps to close information gaps—building on the Multilateral Leaders Task Force on COVID-19, the ACT-Accelerator, and the open markets, for example—by negotiating tariff reductions on medical goods and greater market access in services should take priority. Also important are measures to improve the efficiency of markets, which include harmonizing regulation through mutual recognition or equivalence of standards and creating international standards for essential medical goods, inputs, and production processes. Agreement on a crisis rulebook to be deployed during an emergency—including clear and agreed limits on export policy flexibility and shared rules on intellectual property flexibilities—would provide a more solid policy foundation to address future challenges.
Download or read book Medicine Price Surveys Analyses and Comparisons written by Sabine Vogler and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine Price Surveys, Analyses and Comparisons establishes guidelines for the study and implementation of pharmaceutical price surveys, analyses, and comparisons. Its contributors evaluate price survey literature, discuss the accessibility and reliability of data sources, and provide a checklist and training kit on conducting price surveys, analyses, and comparisons. Their investigations survey price studies while accounting for the effects of methodologies and explaining regional differences in medicine prices. They also consider policy objectives such as affordable access to medicines and cost-containment as well as options for improving the effectiveness of policies. Provides guidance for planning and implementing pharmaceutical pricing policies and systems Reviews external price referencing systems Explains common baselines for interpreting price surveys Defines pharmaceutical price terminology and nomenclature
Download or read book Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation Intersections between Public Health Intellectual Property and Trade written by World Intellectual Property Organization and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2013 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study has emerged from an ongoing program of trilateral cooperation between WHO, WTO and WIPO. It responds to an increasing demand, particularly in developing countries, for strengthened capacity for informed policy-making in areas of intersection between health, trade and IP, focusing on access to and innovation of medicines and other medical technologies.
Download or read book Study on the Measurement of Cross border Penetration in the EU Public Procurement Market written by Prometeia SpA and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of fundamental change and extraordinary investment plans in the EU, public procurement represents a strategic instrument for each Member State's economic policy. Ensuring efficient and transparent public procurement can contribute to address many of Europe's major challenges, especially in creating sustainable growth and jobs. Public authorities, by increasing efficiency of public spending to obtain better value for money, can contribute to a more innovative, sustainable, inclusive and competitive economy, while delivering better outcomes for societal and other public policy objectives. In addition, improving procurement is part of the stronger single market strategy pursued by the European Commission. Transparency and competition can lower prices and increase the quality of goods and services purchased by national contracting authorities and create a larger cross-border tendering in the EU. A well-functioning public procurement market, ensuring high level of openness and competition, would benefit European companies and ultimately, all European citizens enjoying a higher quality and effective public spending. Companies bidding for public contracts in their own, as well as other EU Member States, would benefit from improved access to procurement markets. At the same time, these rules aim to create better SME opportunities and ensure reciprocity with trading partners outside the EU. Technological acceleration and digitalisation, changing demographics and evermore interconnected markets strongly affect our societies and economies. In a globalised world, the economic integration brought about by the single market remains a key driver for wealth creation and competitiveness, and therefore our best protection. A clear and precise picture of the cross-border public procurement trends is therefore needed to help the European Commission adopt informed actions and potentially re-shape the applicable legal framework. This study depicts the recent cross-border activity in public procurement in the EU27 and updates the timelines of relevant indicators calculated in two previous studies1 of similar scope. It closely follows the structure and the methodologies of the previous work on the subject, and both take a top-down approach in describing the EU27 cross-border public procurement: first by presenting the macro data that sheds light on the potential size of the market, and second by performing a statistical analysis using micro data to quantify and formally analyse the factors related to cross-border procurement. Additionally, this work presents novel aspects that reflect increased integration arising from the extension of the global value chains. It also contributes to the macro measurement and, to some extent, the micro measurement by presenting a novel quantification of the cross-border public procurement that includes the existing value-added supply chains. Finally, the complete study contains a vast amount of information on the characteristics of the public procurement contract awards registered in the Supplement to the Official Journal from 2016 to 2019, with some sections covering even wider time frame (2009-2016). This executive summary only reports a selected number of these characteristics together with the main key findings.
Download or read book Drug Utilization Research written by Monique Elseviers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards a better understanding of how medicines are used in society Drug Utilization Research (DUR) is a discipline which combines aspects of pharmacotherapy, epidemiology, and health services research into an interdisciplinary set of methods for analyzing and assessing the prescribing, dispensing and consumption of medicines. It combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches to facilitate the safe and effective use of pharmaceuticals. Drug Utilization Research: Methods and Applications provides a comprehensive introduction to this discipline, prepared by an international team of authors with broad experience in numerous fields. Now reorganized and updated to reflect the latest research and global challenges, it is an indispensable resource for understanding the use of pharmaceuticals. Readers of the second edition of Drug Utilization Research will find: New chapters on methods, including more hands-on guidance on how to plan and conduct different types of drug utilization A section on specific applications in areas such as psychotropics, opioids, cancer drugs, antibacterials, and cardiovascular drugs A new section with case studies illustrating applications of DUR in different continents Detailed treatment of subjects including DUR and health policy, DUR in specific populations, and many more Drug Utilization Research is ideal for epidemiologists, pharmacists, physicians, nurses and others interested in drug use and its outcomes.
Download or read book Expert Judgement in Risk and Decision Analysis written by Anca M. Hanea and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pulls together many perspectives on the theory, methods and practice of drawing judgments from panels of experts in assessing risks and making decisions in complex circumstances. The book is divided into four parts: Structured Expert Judgment (SEJ) current research fronts; the contributions of Roger Cooke and the Classical Model he developed; process, procedures and education; and applications. After an Introduction by the Editors, the first part presents chapters on expert elicitation of parameters of multinomial models; the advantages of using performance weighting by advancing the “random expert” hypothesis; expert elicitation for specific graphical models; modelling dependencies between experts’ assessments within a Bayesian framework; preventive maintenance optimization in a Bayesian framework; eliciting life time distributions to parametrize a Dirichlet process; and on an adversarial risk analysis approach for structured expert judgment studies. The second part includes Roger Cooke’s oration from 1995 on taking up his chair at Delft University of Technology; one of the editors reflections on the early decade of the Classical Model development and use; a current overview of the theory of the Classical Model, providing a deep and comprehensive perspective on its foundations and its application; and an interview with Roger Cooke. The third part starts with an interview with Professor Dame Anne Glover, who served as the Chief Scientific Advisor to the President of the European Commission. It then presents chapters on the characteristics of good elicitations by reviewing those advocated and applied; the design and development of a training course for SEJ; and on specific experiences with SEJ protocols with the intention of presenting the challenges and insights collected during these journeys. Finally, the fourth (and largest) part begins with some reflections from Willy Aspinall on his many experiences in applying the Classical Model in several application domains; it continues with related reflections on imperfect elicitations; and then it presents chapters with applications on medicines policy and management, supply chain cyber risk management, geo-political risks, terrorism and the risks facing businesses looking to internationalise.
Download or read book Cross border Health Care in the European Union written by Matthias Wismar and published by Observatory Studies. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-border health care has become a much more prominent phenomenon in the European Union. When in need of medical treatment, patients increasingly act as informed consumers who claim the right to choose their own providers, including those beyond borders. This book explores such trends and also looks at the legal framework for cross-border care as well as examining some of the uncertainties surrounding it. After the adoption of the Directive on the application of patient rights in cross-border care, Member States will now have to start implementing these provisions. One of the challenges will be to see how various national practices related to access, benefits and tariffs, quality and safety, patient rights, cooperation etc. will be affected by these new rules. The information and analysis presented in the study can be of considerable use to policy-makers and those with an interest in key aspects of cross-border health care to accompany or follow this process.
Download or read book Collaborative Cross Border Procurement in the EU written by Albert Sanchez-Graells and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative public procurement has been gaining traction in recent years and could be considered at the spearhead of public procurement reform and innovation. The 2014 reform of the EU public procurement rules (mainly Directive 2014/24) has expanded the tool-kit available to contracting authorities willing to engage in joint or centralised procurement activities, and in particularly in cross-border procurement collaboration. In a push forward, and as part of the Strategy for a deeper and fairer single market in its larger context, the European Commission is developing a policy to facilitate and promote cross-border collaborative public procurement in the European Union. This paper adopts a sceptical approach and critically assesses the political, economic and in particular legal factors that can facilitate or block such development. To do so, it focuses on a case study based on a theoretical scenario of cross-border collaboration between centralised purchasing bodies in different EU Member States. The paper ultimately aims to establish a blueprint for future legal research in this area, in particular regarding the emergence of trans-EU public law.
Download or read book Building European Reference Networks in Health Care written by Willy Palm and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the European Directive on the application of patients' rights in cross-border health care, the development of European reference networks was promoted as one of the prime areas for cross-border cooperation among Member States. These networks are meant to improve access to and provision of high-quality health care to all patients who have conditions requiring a concentration of specialized resources or expertise. At the same time they could act as focal points for medical training and research, information dissemination and evaluation, especially for rare diseases. The idea of pooling resources in order to better address medical conditions that are rare or require very specialized expertise or equipment, corresponds with moves towards concentration of specialized health care services, often motivated by common health systems challenges like tightening financial constraints, workforce shortages and growing attention for quality and safety. This book examines the different ways in which the concept of reference networks has been implemented in European countries, and what kind of medical conditions or interventions it covers in various countries. It also looks at the motivations behind the establishment of such networks, the regulatory and administrative processes for identifying and designating them, as well as the financial arrangements needed for their proper functioning. This study outlines the key policy implications and challenges for developing the concept of reference networks at national and European levels. Ultimately we aim to provide a better understanding of the issues that may be encountered when implementing the Directive.
