Pharmacoeconomics: the efficiency and rational use of pharmaceutical products

Abstract

This paper is a discussion about pharmacoeconomics contributes to increase the efficiency levels in the field of drug use. By this discipline's work guidelines, different pharmacoeconomic applications will be able to be performed, both in the field of sanitary-services offering and in the process of obtaining new drugs by the pharmaceutical industry. As a result of the sanitary authorities' present focusing on pharmacodinamics, the international pharmaceutical industry has started to become interested in such analytical techniques, and to use them in its research-development-production and marketing strategies for its products; this is one of the most important initial efforts, which are targeted to attain that economic evaluation starts to be involved in the comprehensive process of drug circulation. As a conclusion of this analysis, it can be stated that pharmacoeconomic evaluation contributes to give a more effective and efficient use to drugs used in the treatment of different diseases. Within the national context of sanitary system, pharmacoeconomics allows to assemble, in a cohesion way, the pharmaceutical industry's interests with those of health-services offering. Thus, this useful work tool's application both in the sanitary-decisions taking and being able to work out policies and strategies for the drug rational use is presented, on the base of its proved clinical effectiveness and the costs of pharmacotherapy used .