Pharmaco-economics_An Article by Sahjesh Soni_Part 2
BRIEF HISTORY REGARDING PHARMACOECONOMICS One of the first times that the term Pharmacoeconomics was used in a public forum was in 1986, at a meeting of Pharmacists in Toronto, Canada, when Ray Townsend , from the Upjohn Company, used the term in a presentation. Ray and a few others had been performing studies using the term Pharmacoeconomics within the pharmaceutical industry since the early eighties. Today, Pharmacoeconomics research is a flourishing industry with many practitioners, a large research and applications agenda, several journals and flourishing professional societies including the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research ...