Empty stocks and loose paper: Governing access to medicines through informality in Northern India

Dahdah, Marine Al; Kumar, Aalok; Quet, Mathieu

doi:10.1177/0268580918792779

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“…Subsequently, market forces led to an abundance, or even overabundance, of some therapeutic classes (analgesics, anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, etc.) to the detriment of others that are either rare or lacking, as illustrated elsewhere (Al Dahdah, Kumar, & Quet, 2018;Desclaux & Egrot, 2015).…”

Section: The Current Cambodian Pharmaceutical Market and Its Regulationsmentioning

confidence: 80%

Understanding Drugs Markets

Baxerres¹,

Cassier²

2021

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Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, consumed and regulated in order to construct a comprehensive understanding of the issues that drive pharmaceutical markets in the Global South today.Based on primary research conducted in Benin and Ghana, and additional data collected in Cambodia and the Ivory Coast, this volume uses artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) against malaria as a central case study. It highlights the influence of the countries' colonial and postcolonial history on their models for state regulation, production and distribution, explores the determining role transnational actors as well as industries from the North but also and increasingly from the South play in influencing local pharmaceutical markets and looks at the behaviour of healthcare professionals and individuals. Stepping back, the authors then unpick the pharmaceuticalization process and the multiple regulations at stake by looking at the workings of, and linkages between, (biomedical health) pharmaceutical systems, (representatives of companies) industries, actors in private and public distribution and consumer practices.Providing a thorough comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of different pharmaceutical systems, it is an important contribution to the literature on pharmaceuticalization and the governance of medication. It is of interest to students, researchers and policymakers interested in medical anthropology, the sociology of health and illness, global health, healthcare management and pharmacy.

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Section: The Current Cambodian Pharmaceutical Market and Its Regulationsmentioning

confidence: 80%

Understanding Drugs Markets

Baxerres¹,

Cassier²

2021

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“…This research contributes to including citizens' voices into research from a bottom-up approach, in line with the need to support science and social dialogue in relation to public health, including vulnerable groups [53] or the role of patients to overcome barriers to health access [54]. The possibilities of social media analysis have been widely explored in very diverse fields, from gender to digital protests [55,56], and this work contributes to advancing knowledge in social media analysis and fake news in public health.…”

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A New Application of Social Impact in Social Media for Overcoming Fake News in Health

Pulido

Ruiz-Eugenio

Redondo-Sama

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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One of the challenges today is to face fake news (false information) in health due to its potential impact on people's lives. This article contributes to a new application of social impact in social media (SISM) methodology. This study focuses on the social impact of the research to identify what type of health information is false and what type of information is evidence of the social impact shared in social media. The analysis of social media includes Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter. This analysis contributes to identifying how interactions in these forms of social media depend on the type of information shared. The results indicate that messages focused on fake health information are mostly aggressive, those based on evidence of social impact are respectful and transformative, and finally, deliberation contexts promoted in social media overcome false information about health. These results contribute to advancing knowledge in overcoming fake health-related news shared in social media.

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“…Subsequently, market forces led to an abundance, or even over-abundance, of some therapeutic classes (analgesics, antiinflammatories, antibiotics, etc. ), to the detriment of others that are either rare or lacking, as illustrated elsewhere (Desclaux & Egrot, 2015;Al Dahdah, Kumar, & Quet, 2018).…”

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confidence: 83%

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Baxerres¹,

Pourraz²

2021

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Eve Bureau-Point While the pharmaceuticalization of Cambodian society was taking hold in Indochina, Cambodia underwent a reverse process of "depharmaceuticalization," sparked by a succession of wars and authoritarian regimes and exacerbated by the Khmer Rouge revolution (1975)(1976)(1977)(1978)(1979). The entire pharmaceutical system was rebuilt. This chapter looks at the current system through the lens of many sources of regulation. It offers an innovative theoretical framework to understand the diversity of social practices involved in regulating the circulation of medicines, whether such practices are driven by the State, healthcare professionals, distributors, or consumers. Through an historical perspective, the chapter presents how the contemporary Cambodian pharmaceutical system is structured as well as the rules, practices, and adjustments-both formal and informal-that have been harnessed over time, in response to the exponential rise in the drug circulation in this context. 1 This concept refers to the rising volume of pharmaceutical drugs in circulation and their increasingly predominant place in society (Desclaux & Egrot, 2015). 2 I would like to thank Maurice Cassier who led the Globalmed team to this conceptualization of the situation in Cambodia during discussions at an internal project meeting in September 2016, held in Paris.

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Empty stocks and loose paper: Governing access to medicines through informality in Northern India

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Understanding Drugs Markets

Understanding Drugs Markets

A New Application of Social Impact in Social Media for Overcoming Fake News in Health

Clashes between subsidized and private ACT markets

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