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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: WHO-WIPO-WTO BOOK
Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation
Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade
揚romoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation?examines the interplay between public health, trade and intellectual property, and how these policy domains affect medical innovation and access to medical technologies. Co-published by the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization, the study draws together the three Secretariats?respective areas of expertise.
Contents
Foreword by the Director Generals
I. Medical technologies: the fundamentals
- A. Public health and medical technologies: the imperative for international cooperation
- B. The cooperating agencies: the WHO, WIPO and the WTO
- C. The global burden of disease and global health risks
- D. Factors shaping public health policy
II. The policy context for action on innovation and access
- A. Public health policy
- B. Intellectual property, trade and other policy dimensions
- C. Economics of innovation and access to medical technologies
- D. Traditional knowledge and traditional medicine
III. Medical technologies: the innovation dimension
- A. Historical pattern of medical R&D
- B. The current R&D landscape
- C. Overcoming market failure: the challenge of neglected diseases
- D. Intellectual property rights in the innovation cycle
- E. Sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits
IV. Medical technologies: the access dimension
- A. Access to medical technologies: the context
- B. Health systems-related determinants of access
- C. IP-related determinants of access
- D. Other trade-related determinants for improving access
Annex I
Annex II
Bibliography
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