Cost containment through pharmaceutical procurement: A Caribbean case study

International Journal of Health Planning and Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-157

  Huff Rousselle, Maggie ^a   Burnett, Francis ^b  

^a Social Sectors Devmt Strategies I ^*  (Saint Lucia)

^b Eastern Caribbean Drug Service   (Saint Lucia)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Cost containment; Developing countries; Pharmaceutical procurement; Small island states

Indexed keywords

GENERIC DRUG;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COST CONTROL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG COST; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG STORAGE; FINANCE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; POLITICS;

COST CONTROL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG COSTS; DRUG INDUSTRY; GROUP PURCHASING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; POLITICS; PUBLIC SECTOR; WEST INDIES;

EID: 0030058444     PISSN: 07496753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1751(199604)11:2<135::AID-HPM422>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Bennett, F.J. (1989). The dilemma of essential drugs in primary health care. Soc. Sci. Med. 28(10), 1085-1090.
2. Berleen, G., Rehberg, G., Wennström, G. (1994). The Reform of Health Care in Sweden. Spri (Swedish Planning and Rationalization Institute for the Health and Social Services) report 339, Stockholm.
3. Creese, A.L. (1992). User charges for health care: a review of recent experience. Health Policy and Planning 6(4), 309-319.
4. Cross, P.N., Huff, M.A., Quick, J.D., Bates, J.A. (1986). Revolving drug funds: conducting business in the public sector. Soc. Sci. Med. 22(3), 335-343.
5. DeFerranti, D. (1985). Paying for health services in developing countries: an overview. World Bank Staff Working Papers, No. 721, Washington, DC.
6. Dennis, P.A. (1991). Monitoring drug quality in the Caribbean. Essential Drugs Monitor, No. 11.
7. Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. (1995). Investment Policy for Eastern Caribbean Drug Service. Prepared February, presented as Paper 4 at Eastern Caribbean Drug Service Policy Board meeting, St Lucia.
8. Foster, S. (1991). Supply and use of essential drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa: some issues and possible solutions. Soc. Sci. Med. 32(11), 1201-1218.
9. Goodridge, G.A.W. (1988). RDO/C organized medical supply system. Front Lines. Agency for International Development, September, 8-9.
10. Griffin, C.C. (1988). User charges for health care in principle and practice. An EDI Seminar Paper No. 37. Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, Washington, DC.
11. Hayes, E. (1993). Bulk procurement in the Gulf States and the Maghreb. Essential Drugs Monitor, No. 14, 9.
12. Huff-Rousselle, M.A., Auxila, P., Kuhl, D. (1987). The Eastern Caribbean Procurement Information System (ECPRO): S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G The Purchasing Power of Public Sector Drug Budgets. Paper presented by Paul Auxila at Aga Khan International Workshop on Management Information Systems and Microcomputers in Primary Health Care in Lisbon, Portugal.
13. Huff-Rousselle, M., Shepherd, C. (1993). Assessment of Jamaican Public Sector Pharmaceutical System. (World Bank consultant's report) Social Sectors Development Strategies, Inc., November.
14. Huff-Rousselle, M., Shepherd, C., Trisolini, M. (1993). Improved diagnostics, more bitter medicine: user fees, chapter 17. In: Morgan, Jr, R.E.M., Rau, B. (Eds). Global Learning for Health. National Council for International Health, Washington, DC.
15. Huff-Rousselle, M. (1988b). Public tendering for pharmaceuticals in the English-speaking Caribbean: Barbados, Jamaica, and the OECS countries. Paper presented at Essential Drugs Policy Seminar sponsored by Ministry of Health, Government of Trinidad and Tobago, and Pan-American Health Organization, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
16. Huff-Rousselle, M. (1989a). Eastern Caribbean health sector assessment and strategic alternatives: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines. Canadian International Development Agency.
17. Huff-Rousselle, M. (1989b). Marketing and financial survival issues for two Caribbean public enterprises: AGAPCO in Haiti and ECDS in the Eastern Caribbean. Paper presented at the 16th National Council for International Health Conference, Washington, DC.
18. Huff-Rousselle, M. (1989c). Private sector involvement, the Eastern Caribbean Drug Service and the Barbados Drug Service: a feasibility study. Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Regional Pharmaceuticals Management Project.
19. Huff-Rousselle, M. (1992). Public sector pharmaceutical system assessment: democratic socialist republic of Sri Lanka. (World Bank consultant's report) Center for International Health, Boston University.
20. Huff-Rousselle, M. (1996). After the election: a fresh look at pharmaceutical supply in Jamaica. In: Overholt, C.A., Saunders, M.K. (Eds). Policy Choices and Practical Problems in Health Economics: Cases from Latin America and the Caribbean. Economic Development Institute, Washington, DC, in press.
21. Huff-Rousselle, M. (1990). Whose project is it: institutional agendas at work. The Regional Pharmaceuticals Management Project and The Eastern Caribbean Drug Service Paper presented at the 17th National Council for International Health Conference, Washington, DC.
22. Huff-Rousselle, M. (1988a). Eastern Caribbean Regional Pharmaceuticals Management Project Eighth Quarterly Report. Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Regional Pharmaceuticals Management Project.
23. Huntley, Earl. The Union of East Caribbean States: Thoughts on a Form. Undated booklet, distributed by OECS.
24. Lall, S., Bibile, S. (1978). The political economy of controlling transnationals: the pharmaceutical industry in Sri Lanka, 1972-76. Int. J. Health Serivces 8(2), 299-328.
25. Lexchin, J. (1989). Doctors and detailers: therapeutic education or pharmaceutical promotion? Int. J. Health Services 19(4), 663-679.
26. Litvick, J. I., Shepard, D.S., Quick, J.D. (1989). Setting the price of essential drugs: necessity and affordability. Lancet, August 12, 376-379.
27. National Corporation of Swedish Pharmacies. Pharmacies in Sweden. Apoteksbolaget, Stockholm, Sweden (undated booklet).
28. OECS. (1986a). Why a Political Union of OECS Countries: The Background and the Issues. Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, St Lucia.
29. OECS. (1986b). Report of the First Meeting of the ECDS Policy Board, December 8-9, 1986. Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Regional Pharmaceuticals Management Project, St Lucia.
30. PAHO. (1984). Development and implementation of drug formularies. PAHO Scientific Publication 474, Pan American Health Organization and World Health Organization, p. 1.
31. Price Waterhouse. (1995). Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Eastern Caribbean Drug Service, Financial Statements, June 30.
32. Quick, J. (Ed.) (1981). Managing Drug Supply. Management Sciences for Health, Boston.
33. Reich, M.R. (1995). The politics of health sector reform in developing countries: three cases of pharmaceutical policy. Health Policy 32, 47-77.
34. Reich, M.R. (1994). Bangladesh pharmaceutical policy and politics. Health Policy and Planning 9(2), 130-143.
35. United States General Accounting Office. (1992). Prescription Drugs, Companies Typically Charge More in the United States than in Canada. GAO/HRD-92-110.
36. Van der Geest, S. (1992). Village health workers as medicine sellers? Int. J. Hlth Planning and Management 7, 185-197.
37. Vogel, R.J., Stephens, B. (1989). Availability of pharmaceuticals in Sub-Saharan Africa: roles of the public, private and church mission sectors. Soc. Sci. Med. 29(4), 479-486.
38. World Bank. (1993). World Bank Development Report 1993: Investing in Health. Oxford University Press for the World Bank, Washington, DC, 1993.
39. World Health Organization. (1989). Caribbean countries pool resources to lower drug cost. Essential Drugs Monitor, No. 8.
40. Wyke, A. (1987). Pharmaceuticals survey. The Economist, February 7, 3-18.