The Health Impact of, and access to, New Drugs in Korea

We perform an econometric assessment of the role that pharmaceutical innovation— the introduction and use of new drugs—has played in improving the health of Koreans, by investigating whether diseases for which more new drugs were launched had larger subsequent increases in longevity and smaller s...

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Main Author: Frank R. Lichtenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy 2020-06-01
Series:East Asian Economic Review
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.11644/KIEP.EAER.2020.24.2.374