Public Health and access to medicine. Pharmaceutical industry's role

2019/01/08 by Gonzalez-Blanco, Juan
#FOS: Economics and business #General Economics (econ.GN)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1901.02384

Abstract

Every year, 10 million people die from lack of access to treatment for curable diseases, specially in developing countries. Meanwhile, legal but unsafe drugs cause 130 thousand deaths per year. How can this be happening in 21st Century? What role does the pharmaceutical industry play in this tragedy? In this research, WHO reports are analyzed and primary information gathered so as to answer this questions.

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