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- Title
Internet Marketing of Neuroproducts: New Practices and Healthcare Policy Challenges.
- Authors
ERIC RACINE; HZ ADRIAAN VAN DER LOOS; JUDY ILLES
- Abstract
Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of healthcare products refers to a variety of marketing practices based on a combination of information and promotion strategies directed at consumers through different media such as radio and television broadcasts, newspaper and magazine ads, and, more recently, through the Internet. The principal form of marketing used by the pharmaceutical industry is the distribution of free samples to physicians but DTCA is an increasing part of global promotional spending for prescription drugs. Latest estimates suggest that DTCA now represents an annual $3.2 billion enterprise for the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. Findings from the literature show that these substantial efforts are geared toward the newer pharmaceuticals for chronic conditions with huge market potentials. The lion's share is going to the 20 most prescribed pharmaceuticals.
- Subjects
DIRECT-to-consumer prescription drug advertising; DRUG advertising; DRUG marketing; PHARMACEUTICAL industry; MARKET potential
- Publication
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2007, Vol 16, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0963-1801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S096318010707020X