World Health Organization Publication : Year 2006 : A88438 - in English: Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights

By Ruth Dreifuss

Book Id: WPLBN0000205700
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Title:	World Health Organization Publication : Year 2006 : A88438 - in English: Public Health Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights
Author:	Ruth Dreifuss
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Our terms of reference made it clear that the focus of our enquiry should be the development of new diagnostics, vaccines and medicines to treat these diseases. But we quickly concluded that innovation was pointless in the absence of favourable conditions for poor people in developing countries to access existing, as well as new, products. The price of medicines is an important factor in determining access, but so also are poverty and the lack of infrastructure for delivering health care to poor people. It is not just neglected diseases, but rather neglected people, that should be our main concern.

Table of Contents
PREFACE..................................................................................................................................................9 CHAPTER 1............................................................................................................................................13 THE HEALTH INNOVATION CYCLE: MAKING IT WORK FOR POOR PEOPLE...............13 INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................13 HEALTH, WEALTH AND POVERTY.........................................................................................13 CHANGING DISEASE TRENDS.................................................................................................15 MANY WAYS TO BETTER HEALTH .........................................................................................18 HEALTH, DEVELOPMENT AND THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS............19 A MORAL IMPERATIVE..............................................................................................................21 A framework for analysis .........................................................................................................................24 DEFINING THE PROBLEM...............................................................................................................25 THE TYPES OF DISEASE............................................................................................................25 THE ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND ACCESS.............................................................27 Demand ......................................................................................................................................................28 Supply.........................................................................................................................................................29 THE ROLE OF PATENTS............................................................................................................32 THE INNOVATION CYCLE ..............................................................................................................35 CHANGING PLAYERS IN THE INNOVATION PROCESS.....................................................37 INNOVATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ....................................................39 THE REPORT......................................................................................................................................41 CHAPTER 2............................................................................................................................................49 THE DEEP WELL OF DISCOVERY: EARLY STAGE RESEARCH ...........................................49 INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................49 EARLY STAGE RESEARCH..............................................................................................................51 THE IMPACT OF SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES............................................................................51 INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES ......................................................................................................53 POLICY CHANGES.......................................................................................................................55 PUBLIC FUNDING AND RESEARCH PRIORITIES...............................................................58 POLICY PROPOSALS: FINANCING AND PRIORITY SETTING .................................................61 POLICY PROPOSALS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY...................................................................63 RESEARCH TOOLS AND PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES.....................................................64 Changes in patenting policies ............................