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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Pharmaceutical Marketing - Time for Change

Buckley, Joan

subject

health care economics and organizations

description

This paper reviews current marketing practices in the pharmaceutical sector, and their impact on consumer and doctor behaviour. It identifies negative impacts which include misleading advertising, disease mongering and escalating costs. It argues the need to move from industry self-regulation to an independently monitored code of practice for pharmaceutical marketing.

http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201010042872