Question

how would the disciplines medicine, communication, and chemistry be relevant and have insight on the researxh problem "the cost of generic drugs and brand named drugs"?

Answer 1

The disciplines medicine, communication, and chemistry are relevant to have an insight into the research problem "the cost of generic drugs and brand-name drugs." It is a known fact that the generic drug is almost 80% cheaper than brand-name drugs. The US healthcare expense was reduced by $1.67 trillion during 2007-2016. Generic medications and brand-name drugs have the same active chemical ingredients and they are equally effective. The differences are only in shape, color, packaging, flavorings, and inactive ingredients. Both are the same with regard to their quality, dosage, strength, and route of administration. The factors that make the brand-name drugs costly are the expensive clinical trials conducted by the manufacturers and the market place competition along with the manufacturers' high profit-seeking behavior. Several studies were conducted to reach this conclusion and to prove this. These researches were conducted in the disciplines of medicine and chemistry where the data analysis lead to further studies and conclusions. These results were communicated effectively with the help of the communication discipline to reach the end-users. Thus these three disciples are relevant to have an insight into this research problem.