Measuring Transparency in the Public Pharmaceutical Sector

The WHO uses survey’s to determine the risk or vulnerability a country or system is to corruption within the pharmaceutical industry. They us a combination of Klitgaard’s corruption formula and Cohen, Cercone and Macaya questionnaire’s which discussed in class.The link below describes the process in details

http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/policy/goodgovernance/AssessmentInstrumentMeastranspENG.PDF

You can look at the questions used in the surveys at the end of the document above (pages 109-154) to give you an idea of how the process works.

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