Orphans and Incentives: Developing Technology to Address Emerging Infections - Softcover

Institute Of Medicine; Forum On Emerging Infections

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309059410 ISBN 13: 9780309059411

Verlag: NATL ACADEMY PR, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of prolonged illness, premature mortality, and soaring health costs. In the United States in 1995, infectious diseases were the third leading cause of death, right behind heart disease and cancer. Mortality is mounting over time, owing to HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, and septicemia, with drug resistance playing an ever-increasing role in each of these disease categories. This book, a report from a Forum on Emerging Infections workshop, focuses on product areas where returns from the market might be perceived as being too small or too complicated by other factors to compete in industrial portfolios with other demands for investment. Vaccines are quintessential examples of such products. The lessons learned fall into four areas, including what makes intersectoral collaboration a reality, the notion of a product life cycle, the implications of divergent sectoral mandates and concepts of risk, and the roles of advocacy and public education. The summary contains an examination of the Children's Vaccine Initiative and other models, an industry perspective on the emerging infections agenda, and legal and regulatory issues.

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Polly F. Harrison and Joshua Lederberg, Editors; Forum on Emerging Infections, Institute of Medicine

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NATL ACADEMY PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0309059410
• ISBN 13: 9780309059411
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
• Herausgeber: Lederberg Joshua
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