Glossary
F
All activities consisting of the purchase and sale, warehousing, order preparation and delivery / distribution of the full assortment of medicines (…
G
Models which offer (portions of) savings (e.g., resulting from generic or biosimilar use) to health care institutions (e.g., hospitals), health…
A health professional, who may be a medical practitioner, nurse or other professional, who has the first encounter with an individual and controls…
A medicine which has the same qualitative and quantitative composition in active substances and the same pharmaceutical form as the reference…
In many countries, the data cover all pharmaceutical consumption. However, several countries provide data covering only the community pharmaceutical…
Regulation, measures and initiatives, typically undertaken by the government authorities, to promote the use of generics and/or (licensed) off-patent…
Practice of setting the price of a generic in relationship to the originator medicine, usually at a certain percentage lower than the originator…
The practice of dispensing a medicine, whether marketed under a trade name or generic name (branded or unbranded generic), with a less expensive…
A method of hospital cost-containment in which participating hospitals must share a prospectively set budget.
Method for allocating funds among…
Good distribution practices are that part of quality assurance that ensure that the quality of a pharmaceutical products is maintained through…
That part of quality assurance which ensures that pharmaceutical products are consistently produced and controlled to the quality standards…
The gross domestic product (GDP) is defined as the gross expenditure on the final uses of the domestic supply of goods and services valued at…
A systematically developed tool which describes aspects of a patient's condition and the care to be given. A good guideline makes recommendations…
H
An organisation or person who delivers proper health care in a systematic way professionally to any individual in need of health care services.…
Expenditure spent by public funds (e.g., state, regional government, social health insurance) and private persons and entities on curative,…
Health technologies include medicines, medical devices such as artificial hip joints, diagnostic techniques, surgical procedures, health promotion…
HTA is a multidisciplinary process that uses explicit methods to determine the value of a health technology at different points in its lifecycle. The…
Preparations obtained by subjecting herbal substances to treatments such as extraction, distillation, expression, fractionation, purification,…
A commonly used measure of market concentration to inform about the level of competition in a market. It is expressed as the sum of the square of the…
The systematic identification of health technologies that are new, emerging or becoming obsolete and that have the potential to effect health, health…