Factors impacting pharmaceutical prices and affordability: narrative review

KS Lee, YW Kassab, NA Taha, ZA Zainal - Pharmacy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Increasing prescription drug pricing often reflects additional work stress on medical
professionals because they function as financial advisors for patients and help them …

Comparing generic drug markets in Europe and the United States: prices, volumes, and spending

OJ Wouters, PG Kanavos, M McKee - The Milbank Quarterly, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Policy Points: Our study indicates that there are opportunities for cost savings in generic
drug markets in Europe and the United States. Regulators should make it easier for generic …

Drug price transparency initiative: A scoping review

NS Ahmad, M Makmor-Bakry, E Hatah - Research in Social and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Drug price transparency is defined as readily available information on the price
of pharmaceutical drugs to either authorities or consumers. Price transparency, together with …

Evaluating the impact of single exit pricing (SEP) on medicine product withdrawal from the private healthcare market in South Africa

K Naidoo, F Suleman - South African Medical Journal, 2021 - journals.co.za
Background. The introduction of medicine pricing policies in South Africa (SA) in the form of
single exit pricing (SEP) provided a mechanism to improve medicine price transparency and …

Association between medicine Price declaration by pharmaceutical industries and retail prices in Malaysia's private healthcare sector

NS Ahmad, E Hatah, M Makmor-Bakry - Journal of pharmaceutical policy …, 2019 - Springer
Background As part of the initiatives to increase price transparency for consumers,
pharmaceutical industry in Malaysia have been encouraged to declare the wholesale and …

Towards a transparent pricing system in South Africa in pharmaceutical logistics fees

V Bangalee, F Suleman - South African health review, 2016 - journals.co.za
South Africa has instituted various mechanisms to render the pricing of pharmaceuticals
more transparent, including the Single Exit Price (SEP) that clarifies the price at which a …

[HTML][HTML] Global outsourcing and local tendering supply chain systems in the public healthcare sector: a cost comparison analysis, Namibia

HN Nakambale, V Bangalee - Value in Health Regional Issues, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives To compare supplier prices for local tendering and global outsourcing supply
chain systems that are used to purchase pharmaceutical products by the Ministry of Health …

Consumers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward medicine Price transparency at private healthcare setting in Malaysia

NS Ahmad, E Hatah, MR Jalil… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Medicine price transparency refers to the practice of making prices available to
consumers for them to identify, compare, and select the medicine that provides the desired …

Cost-savings accruable to removing value added tax from antiretrovirals in the South African private health sector

V Bangalee, F Suleman - health sa gesondheid, 2017 - ajol.info
Background: Despite the important and essential role that medicines play in any society, all
medicines, including those identified as essential, are uniformly subjected to 14% value …

A Model to Measure the Service Quality of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers

CA Bisschoff, HC Barnard - Journal of Economics and …, 2019 - ojs.amhinternational.com
The study constituters a model to measure the service quality of pharmaceutical wholesalers
in South Africa. Several pharmaceutical wholesalers distribute medical supplies throughout …