Pharmacoeconomics: From Theory to Practice

Pharmacoeconomics is essential in healthcare due to limited budgets, rationing, shortages, and aging populations. It helps optimize drug development, rationing, patient segmentation, disease management, and pricing model development. The second edition of Pharmacoeconomics: From Theory to Practice provides updated information on pharmacoeconomic models, value-based pricing, and international utilization. It also addresses ethical and moral issues and public health concerns. The book is timely and provides an excellent introduction for students, professionals, and healthcare professionals.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 320 pages
\n Publication date: 30 September 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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In the current era of constrained budgets, healthcare rationing, medication shortages, and the global aging and expanding population, numerous stakeholders in the healthcare sector must comprehend the fundamental principles of pharmacoeconomics and how these can be appropriately applied to facilitate drug development, rationing, patient segmentation, disease management, and pricing model development.

Pharmacoeconomics: From Theory to Practice, Second Edition, emphasizes the effective and rational utilization of healthcare resources, rather than restricting access to essential services. This revised volume equips decision-makers with the necessary tools to make informed choices in a field where the stakes are exceptionally high—the health of the global population.

Key Features:

Introduces the major concepts and principles of Pharmacoeconomics

Provides updated information about pharmacoeconomic models, value-based pricing, novel modeling methodologies, and international utilization of these modalities in government, the pharmaceutical industry, and healthcare settings

Demonstrates the full range of ethical and moral issues, as well as overall public health and commercial concerns, that are often involved in decisions entailing pharmacoeconomic issues

Presents both theory and methodology discussions, including real-world examples, in each chapter

The methods and application of pharmacoeconomics are rapidly evolving, making the new edition of this textbook highly timely. It serves as an excellent introduction for individuals new to the field, whether they be students, professionals within the pharmaceutical industry, or healthcare professionals more broadly. A particularly useful feature of the book is that it provides an introduction to the primary methods employed in pharmacoeconomics.

\n Weight: 512g\n
Dimension: 153 x 234 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367521363\n
Edition number: 2 New edition\n