1. The role of Transnational Corporations in Health Care
LO: To understand how TNCs can brings benefits and cause problems for the world's health.

2. Brain Warm-Up What are TNCs?
How might Pharmaceutical Companies help with the fight against world health?
What's the purpose of a patent?
How might Pharmaceutical Companies cause more harm than good?

3. Read page 270
What are their role and why is it often expensive to produce the drugs?
What is the role of The American Pharmaceutical Group
How is it tackling negative press?

4. Using the data from p271, create a stacked column graph for the share value of the top ten Pharmaceutical Companies for:
USA, UK, Switzerland, France
What patterns do you notice from the graph?

6. Homework
Create a factfile for GSK - your chosen Pharmaceutical Company.
How much does it make annually?
What programs does it have?
How many people does it employ?
What inititivates does it have?
How many people in its R&D department
Use sheet and