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The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian Government: Folie à Deux
The interest of the pharmaceutical industry is in achieving a profit for its shareholders while the interest of the Canadian government should be in protecting public health. However, over the course of the past few decades the actions of the Canadian government have been tilted in favour of industr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28906232 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25195 |
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description | The interest of the pharmaceutical industry is in achieving a profit for its shareholders while the interest of the Canadian government should be in protecting public health. However, over the course of the past few decades the actions of the Canadian government have been tilted in favour of industry in two areas. The first is in the relationship between industry and Health Canada and is manifested in the regulation of clinical trials, the drug approval system, drug safety and promotion. The second is in economic policy as it applies to policies about patent protection, the price of medications and measures taken to incentivize research and development. The problems in the relationship are structural and will only be solved through systemic changes. |
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spelling | pubmed-55952102018-08-01 The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian Government: Folie à Deux Lexchin, Joel Healthc Policy Discussion and Debate The interest of the pharmaceutical industry is in achieving a profit for its shareholders while the interest of the Canadian government should be in protecting public health. However, over the course of the past few decades the actions of the Canadian government have been tilted in favour of industry in two areas. The first is in the relationship between industry and Health Canada and is manifested in the regulation of clinical trials, the drug approval system, drug safety and promotion. The second is in economic policy as it applies to policies about patent protection, the price of medications and measures taken to incentivize research and development. The problems in the relationship are structural and will only be solved through systemic changes. Longwoods Publishing 2017-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5595210/ /pubmed/28906232 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25195 Text en Copyright © 2017 Longwoods Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License, which permits rights to copy and redistribute the work for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is given proper attribution. |
spellingShingle | Discussion and Debate Lexchin, Joel The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian Government: Folie à Deux |
title | The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian Government: Folie à Deux |
title_full | The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian Government: Folie à Deux |
title_fullStr | The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian Government: Folie à Deux |
title_full_unstemmed | The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian Government: Folie à Deux |
title_short | The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian Government: Folie à Deux |
title_sort | pharmaceutical industry and the canadian government: folie à deux |
topic | Discussion and Debate |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5595210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28906232 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2017.25195 |
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