On the Relationship of Medicine Patent and Public Health
Abstract
Now, the global public health situation is very serious. The international protection of medicine patent has an important influence on public health of developed and developing countries. The solution of public health crisis depends on new-produced medication and the protecting regulation of medicine patent has an great effect on new medicine development. The high level of intellectual proper protection made the medicine protected by patent worth a higher price, so people can’t afford the medicine effectively. At the same time, regarding the new medicine research and development organization,especially the new drug ,witch treats the rare sickness or the serious epidemic infectious diseases, must to be putting in a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, we must spend a lot of time and creative labor force, likely to be successful. Because of the appearance of public health crisis, new medicine whose development takes vast cost are modeled, inventors couldn’t be paid back, or couldn’t even get their cost back, which will hit inventors creative enthusiasm. The made the relationship between medicine monopoly as personal rights and public health right as human rights gained so wide attention gradually.
Key words:Public Health Medicine Patent Values Balancing TRIPS