• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Medicines for the People, not the Financial Markets
  • Beteiligte: Ringger, Beat
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2023
  • Erschienen in: International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, 53 (2023) 4, Seite 539-542
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/27551938231189358
  • ISSN: 2755-1938; 2755-1946
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  • Beschreibung: Drug company marketing scandals have often made headlines. However, in recent years, a raft of new pharmaceutical industry transgressions has created crises for health care systems of high-income countries as well as poorer nations. Prices of life-saving drugs are soaring; supply shortfalls of essential medications have become common; development of new antibiotics against resistant organisms is lagging; and inequalities in access to medicines are widening. Policymakers must find new solutions to protect health systems and health.