title: Setting the price of essential drugs: necessity and affordability.
abstract: A method has been developed for fine tuning the selection of drugs to improve cost recovery, to promote appropriate drug use, and to make more drugs more affordable. This scheme is based on a classification of drug necessity (vital, essential, non-essential) and on the relative cost of complete courses of treatment so that expensive drugs can be subsidised by marking up inexpensive ones.
authors.affiliation: Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Litvack
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Shepard
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Quick
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003906:Developing Countries; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005252:Fees, Pharmaceutical; D005260:Female; D006289:Health Planning Support / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007214:Indonesia; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D012494:Sampling Studies; D014480:United Nations