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Video: Self-pay and Emerging Markets

August 12, 2016 | emerging markets 


A key feature of emerging markets is that patients often have to pay for a high proportion of their healthcare costs themselves. For all but the most severe conditions, public reimbursement of medication is often partial to non-existent, particularly in the outpatient setting. In this video Emerging Markets Director Marc Yates discusses the opportunities and challenges for pharma in self-pay markets and outlines what these mean for healthcare market research.

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