Pharmaceutical growth versus health equity in India: when markets fail.
Aim: To reveal inequity in health in India. Subject and methods: The global paradigm of the knowledge economy propounds that growth and equity will occur if there is a free-market economy without state intervention and if patents are provided as incentives for innovation. In this paper, we explore t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 473 - 490 |
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