Availability of Medicines
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Helena Jenzer; V’Iain Fenton-May
- Source
- Practical Pharmaceutics ISBN: 9783319158136
- Subject
- Globalization
business.industry
Economic policy
Information technology
Production (economics)
Economic shortage
Business
Security of supply
Outcome (game theory)
- Language
Fundamental changes and new challenges have been emerging in the last decades as a result of the globalisation of markets and of production, new economic doctrines, tight budgets as well as the development of information technology. This has brought with it a shift in the security of supply, which now has to cope with drug shortages to prevent a decrease in safety and a worse outcome for the patients.