A review of promoting access to medicines in China - problems and recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite recent reforms, distorting funding mechanisms and over-prescribing still maintain severe financial barriers to medicines access in China. Complicated and interrelated problems in the pharmaceutical sector require a common framework to be resolved as fragmented solutions do not work. We present a preliminary assessment of the impact of the national healthcare reforms on access to medicines, and propose policy recommendations for promoting universal access to medicines in China.

Methods

Drawing on multiple sources of information, including a review of published literatures and official national data, field investigations in six provinces and interviews with key opinion leaders, this paper presents a preliminary assessment of the impact of the national health

SUBMITTER: Sun J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5819167 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature