The Living Tree: Traditional Medicine and Public Health in China and India - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9332700834 ISBN 13: 9789332700833

Verlag: Academic Foundation, 2014

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This volume offers much food for thought and makes a valuable contribution to the literature. I hope that academics, policy makers and others involved in making health more accessible and affordable will find this volume relevant in their work"". - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Former President of India

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This volume examines the various issues in access to health issues and the role of intellectual property rights in access to drugs and the scope for using traditional medicine in public health. A team of experts from China, India, UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway and the Philippines have contributed to this volume. The volume examines Health Impact Fund, a mechanism that is proposed to incentivise R&D in neglected diseases and enhance access to drugs, and analyses how China and India can cooperate in traditional medicine sector besides providing reviews on the status of traditional medicine in both countries and the challenges before that sector in China and India in regulation, intellectual property rights and industrial policy. This is a unique volume that makes a significant contribution to the debates on access to medicine and role of traditional medicine in public health.

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• Verlag: Academic Foundation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9332700834
• ISBN 13: 9789332700833
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364
• Herausgeber: Chaturvedi Sachin, Ladikas Miltos, Lifeng Guo, Srinivas Krishna Ravi