Network for Monitoring the Impact of Globalization and TRIPS on Access to Medicines, Meeting Report, 19-21 February 2001, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand - Health Economics and Drugs Series No. 011: 6. Selected indicators for studying the impact of globalization and TRIPS on access to medicines: Contents: II. Trends in total pharmaceutical consumption

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
	Steering Committee
	Acknowledgements
2. Highlights of opening address of Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi
3. ¹Globalization, TRIPS and Access to Pharmaceuticals
	A new era in global trade
	WTO Agreements
	Implementation and dispute settlement
	Key requirements of the TRIPS Agreement
		Patent protection
		Rights conferred
		Transitional arrangements
		Public health and TRIPS
		Patentability
		Generic drugs
		Compulsory licensing
		Parallel imports
		TRIPS-plus provisions
		Non-WTO Members
		Evaluating impacts of trade agreements
	WHO Perspectives on Access to Drugs
		Access to health is a human right
		Patents are an effective stimulator of research and development
		Affordability of essential drugs is a public health priority
		Countries must develop informed approaches to health and trade
4. Further Reading
5. Template of selected model indicators for studying the impact of globalization and TRIPS on access to medicines
6. Selected indicators for studying the impact of globalization and TRIPS on access to medicines
	Respondent data
	Contents
		I. Definitions used in the template**
		II. Trends in total pharmaceutical consumption
		III. Health care coverage
		IV. Structure of public and private pharmaceutical prices
		V. Regulations relating to intellectual property rights protection and marketing authorization
		VI. Prices of pharmaceutical products
		VII. Market share of domestic and foreign firms
		VIII. Regulation of pharmaceutical consumption - A stakeholder analysis
7. The Collaborating Centres

Table A: Final Consumption in nominal (unadjusted annual) prices, in national currency unit ... ... ... (million, billion, etc.)
Year	Total health expenditure	Total pharmaceutical expenditure	Total public (government) pharmaceutical expenditure as a per cent of total pharmaceutical expenditure (in terms of sales)	Total private expenditure on pharmaceuticals as a per cent of total pharmaceutical expenditure (in terms of sales)	Percentage of expenditure on imported pharmaceuticals (sales)	Percentage of pharmaceutical expenditure on locally produced goods (sales)	Annual national inflation rate
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003

Table B: Consumption of generic medicines as a percentage of total pharmaceutical consumption
Year	GENERIC MEDICINES AS PERCENTAGE OF PHARMACEUTICAL CONSUMPTION
	Sales	Volume of Prescriptions (number)
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003