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Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL, volume 26)
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About this book
The Politics of Pharmaceutical Policy Reform: A Study of Generic Drug Regulation in Brazil, explores the following:
· The politics of pharmaceutical regulation in Brazil over the last 25 years.
· The political negotiations to approve the Generic Drug Act, which involved a hard-to-reach agreement between the pharmaceutical industry (national and multinational), the Ministry of Health, and Congress
· The controversial decisions to regulate packaging and pharmaceutical equivalence.
· The surprising success of Brazilian pharmaceutical firms, which became market champions in a sector largely dominated by multinational firms.
· Comparative lessons from the Brazilian case for the political construction of regulatory standards to regulate generic drugs and its effects on global health.
This book will interest political scientists and health policy scholars concerned with the political conflicts in the pharmaceutical sector. It argues against well-established approaches to regulatory capture such as control of the regulatory process by interest groups and policy diffusion. It can be used as evidence for graduate courses in public policy, health policy and political science. Because Brazil is one of the largest markets for pharmaceuticals in the world, business leaders and consultancy firms would also be interested.
Reviews
“Brazil, in public health as in so many other things, is much discussed but frequently misunderstood. For all the ink spilt discussing access to medicines, astonishingly little work has investigated the actual politics and effects of Brazil's famously innovative access to medicines policy. Fonseca's pathbreaking book solves this problem, bringing Brazilian politics into the analysis. She brings the rigor and comparative perspective of political economy together with deep research to map out the political economy of a policy shift that changed global debates. This book should be required reading in global and comparative health policy, for very few are so rigorous in their understanding of the politics of pharmaceuticals, global health, or Brazil”.
-- Scott L. Greer, University of Michigan and European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.
"This book is based on extensive research on the politics of pharmaceutical regulations in Brazil, a subject that has received insufficient attention but will be of increasing importance. Reconciling the objectives of stimulating competition to achieve lower prices of drugs, and raising quality standards, is a major challenge faced by regulators in developing countries throughout the world. Brazil has been a leader in this regard. Fonseca’s astute analysis of the Brazilian case provides key insights for understanding these processes".
-- Ken Shadlen, London School of Economics and Political Science
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Elize Massard da Fonseca is a postdoctoral fellow in Public Administration and Management at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She holds a doctoral degree in Social Policy from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and a doctoral degree in Public Health from Fiocruz. Her research interests are in the areas of pharmaceutical regulation and health politics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Pharmaceutical Policy Reform
Book Subtitle: A Study of Generic Drug Regulation in Brazil
Authors: Elize Massard da Fonseca
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12565-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12564-0Published: 01 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12565-7Published: 17 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2191-5466
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5474
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 117
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Policy, Economic Policy, International Political Economy