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Survey on Pharmaceutical Policy and Financing in Asia-Pacific Countries

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One of the key objectives of national health system is guarantee timely access to health services and reduce financial burden to healthcare cost. Universal health coverage (UHC) is considered as a well-functioning financing system to achieve those goals. What are covered and/or how much cost is paid as well as how many people are covered are discussed on the way to universal health coverage. However, this discussion has been mainly focused on the use of medical service and rarely dealt with topics about the access to and rational use of medicines...

(from Chapter 1. Introduction)

Healthcare quality improvement network in the Asia Pacific region - focused on the hospital performance assessment Pharmaceutical Policy and Financing in Asia-Pacific Countries
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