Mossialos, Elias 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8664-9297, Morel, Chantal M., Edwards, S. E., Berensen, J., Gemmill, Marin and Brogen, D.
(2010)
Policies and incentives for promoting innovation in antibiotic research.
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.
ISBN 9789289042130
Abstract
High levels of pathogen resistance are rendering current antibiotics obsolete. Coupled with insufficient investment in discovering new treatments, multidrug-resistant infections are an increasingly urgent public health concern. To curb the growth of antibiotic resistance and prevent major morbidity and mortality from multidrug-resistant bacterial infections, the overuse of antibiotics must be addressed and research and development for antibiotics with novel mechanisms of action actively promoted. This requires appropriately designed incentives for health and regulatory systems, in addition to economic incentives to attract academic interest and industry investment. This book, commissioned by the Swedish Government from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, analyses many proposed policies and incentive mechanisms and sheds light on the key issues that will help policy-makers reach informed, concrete decisions on how to avert this potential public health crisis.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Official URL: | http://www.euro.who.int/en/home/projects/observato... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 World Health Organization on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies |
| Divisions: | Social Policy LSE Health |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2010 16:03 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 05:24 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/28751 |
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