The impact of global and local factors on drug accesibility in Egypt /
Eshrak Zaky
The impact of global and local factors on drug accesibility in Egypt / Eshrak Zaky ; Supervised Richard Roman , Joel Lexchin - Canada : Eshrak Zaky , 2006 - 403 Leaves : charts ; 30cm
هذه الرسالة أخذت معادلة الدكتوراه التى تمنحها الجامعات المصرية عام 2015
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Canada University - Faculty of Toronto - Department of Sociology
Many studies have focused on the negative impact of globalization on the conditions of people in third world countries by highlighting labor cost reduction mechanisms. This disertation looks at the role of revenue increasing marker mechanisms which are aimed at increasing profit through monopoly behavior in directly affecting people's accessibility to essential medicines. More specifically, since the 1970s, the availability and affordability of essential drugs in Egypt has been reduced as a result of the increasing interaction between the pharmaceutical transnational corporations (TNCs) on the one hand and local producers on the other. Rather than increasing accessibility to drugs, the fierce unfair competition between the TNCs and national producers over the market share actually results in the market being filled with large amounts of non essential drugs. Furthermore, the production of essential drugs suffers
The impact of global and local factors on drug accesibility in Egypt / Eshrak Zaky ; Supervised Richard Roman , Joel Lexchin - Canada : Eshrak Zaky , 2006 - 403 Leaves : charts ; 30cm
هذه الرسالة أخذت معادلة الدكتوراه التى تمنحها الجامعات المصرية عام 2015
Thesis (Ph.D.) - Canada University - Faculty of Toronto - Department of Sociology
Many studies have focused on the negative impact of globalization on the conditions of people in third world countries by highlighting labor cost reduction mechanisms. This disertation looks at the role of revenue increasing marker mechanisms which are aimed at increasing profit through monopoly behavior in directly affecting people's accessibility to essential medicines. More specifically, since the 1970s, the availability and affordability of essential drugs in Egypt has been reduced as a result of the increasing interaction between the pharmaceutical transnational corporations (TNCs) on the one hand and local producers on the other. Rather than increasing accessibility to drugs, the fierce unfair competition between the TNCs and national producers over the market share actually results in the market being filled with large amounts of non essential drugs. Furthermore, the production of essential drugs suffers