Drug shortage is a global issue affecting low, middle, and high-income countries. Many
countries have developed various strategies to overcome the problem, while the problem is …

Objectives To analyse and present the literature describing the health consequences of
falsified medicines, focusing on mortality and morbidity, as well as the scale of the issue, the …

Humanitarian operations management (HOM) defines the broad domain that deals with the
management of crisis events and human suffering, and a plethora of research has …

This book provides a timely criminological investigation into the rapidly growing sale of fake
medicines online. Some estimates suggest that the fake medicine trade has now overtaken …

Despite key advances in healthcare informatics and management, little progress to address
supply chain process-related problems has been made to date. Specifically, key healthcare …

Introduction Supply of medicine as a strategic product in any health system is a top priority.
Pharmaceutical companies, a major player of the drug supply chain, are subject to many …

Forty years ago, the Declaration of Alma-Ata enshrined primary health care as the basic
approach to addressing health needs (1). The social, economic and demographic context of …

The World Health Organization suggests that approximately 10% of medicines worldwide
are either falsified or substandard with higher figures in low and middle income countries …

Introduction The counterfeit phenomenon is a largely under-reported issue, with potentially
large burden for healthcare. The market for counterfeit drugs used in sexual medicine, most …

Background: A growing number of online pharmacies have been established worldwide.
Among them are numerous illegal websites selling medicine without valid medical …