TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chaturvedi,Sachin
AU  - Ladikas,Miltos
AU  - Guo,Lifeng
AU  - Srinivas,Krishna Ravi
TI  - The living tree: traditional medicine and public health in China and India
SN  - 9789332700833
U1  - 610.951 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Academic foundation
KW  - Medicine - Chinese
KW  - Traditional medicine - India
KW  - Public health - China
KW  - Public health - India
N2  - This volume examines the various issues in access to health issues and the role of intellectual property rights in access to drugs and the scope for using traditional medicine in public health. A team of experts from China, India, UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway and the Philippines have contributed to this volume. The volumes examines Health Impact Fund, a mechanism that is proposed to incentivise R&D in neglected diseases and enhance access to drugs, and analyses how China and India can cooperate in traditional medicine sector besides providing reviews on the status of traditional medicine in both countries and the challenges before that sector in China and India in regulation, intellectual property rights and industrial policy. This is a unique volume that makes a significant contribution to the debates on access to medicine and role of traditional medicine in public health. (http://academicfoundation.org/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=173)
ER  -