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Securing the public good of health research and development for developing countries

Author(s) -

JohnArne Røttingen,

Cláudia Chamas,

LC Goyal,

Hilda L Harb,

Leizel P. Lagrada,

Bongani M. Mayosi

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

bulletin of the world health organization

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.459

H-Index - 168

eISSN - 1564-0604

pISSN - 0042-9686

DOI - 10.2471/blt.12.105460

Subject(s) - developing country , public health , commission , health policy , global health , economic growth , medicine , international health , developed country , environmental health , business , economics , population , nursing , finance

PerspectivesSecuring access to medicines and other health technologies in developing countries continues to be among the major challenges for global health. The challenge lies in ensuring that existing health products are delivered at afford-able prices and that innovations and discoveries meet the health needs of developing countries. This policy prob-lem calls for both global and national policy instruments. When in 2001 the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health categorized diseases as typeI, II and III based on the extent to which they affected countries at different eco-nomic levels, it was alienating for many public health professionals.

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