TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Strüver, Vanessa
A1  - Fneish, Firas
A1  - Ibeneme, Sam C.
A1  - Muche, Rainer
A1  - Fortwengel, Gerhard
T1  - Status Quo Of Healthcare Systems and Their Impact on Pharmaceutical Industry Performance in African Developing Countries: A Scoping Review
JF  - Global Bioethics Enquiry
N2  - Economic and political/governmental infrastructural factors are major contributors to the economic development/growth of all sectors of a country, such as in the area of healthcare systems and clinical research, including the pharmaceutical industry. But what is the interaction between economic, and political/governmental infrastructural factors and the development of healthcare systems, especially, the performance of the pharmaceutical industry? Information from selected articles of a literature search of PubMed and by using Google Advanced Search led to the generation of five categories of infrastructural factors, and were filled with data from 41 African Countries using the World Health Organization data repository. Median changes over time were given and tested by Wilcoxon signed-rank test and Friedman test, respectively. Analysis of factors related to availability of healthcare facilities showed that physicians and pharmacies were significant increased, with insignificantly decreased number of hospital beds. Healthcare Financing by the Government showed notable differences. Private health spending decreased significantly unlike Gross National Income. Analysis of infrastructural factors showed that stable supply of electricity and the associated use of the Internet improved significantly. The low level of data on the expansion of paved road networks suggests less developed medical services in remote rural areas. Healthcare systems in African countries improved over the last two decades, but differences between the individual countries still prevail and some of the countries cannot yet offer an attractive sales market for the products of pharmaceutical companies.
KW  - African countries
KW  - Afrika
KW  - Infrastruktur
KW  - Gesundheitswesen
KW  - Klinisches Experiment
KW  - Pharmazeutische Industrie
KW  - Economic and political/governmental infrastructural factors
KW  - healthcare systems
KW  - clinical research
KW  - performance of the pharmaceutical industry
Y1  - 2022
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-29398
SN  - 2207-7723
SS  - 2207-7723
U6  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-2939
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-2939
VL  - 10
IS  - 3
SP  - 119
EP  - 133
ER  -