TY - CHAP
T1 - Essential Medicine List, Policies, and the World Health Organization
AU - Atif, Muhammad
AU - Malik, Iram
AU - Dawoud, Dalia
AU - Gilani, Anwar
AU - Ahmed, Naseer
AU - Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din
PY - 2019/6/20
Y1 - 2019/6/20
N2 - National policy on essential medicines is one of the main pillars of global health agenda. The Nairobi Conference on the Rational Use of Drugs, held in 1985, was the first international conference on policies on essential medicines. Over the years, World Health Organization has widely supported most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the development and subsequent implementation of national policies on essential medicines.Implementation of these policies has resulted in their easy availability, better affordability, and better quality in LMICs.
AB - National policy on essential medicines is one of the main pillars of global health agenda. The Nairobi Conference on the Rational Use of Drugs, held in 1985, was the first international conference on policies on essential medicines. Over the years, World Health Organization has widely supported most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the development and subsequent implementation of national policies on essential medicines.Implementation of these policies has resulted in their easy availability, better affordability, and better quality in LMICs.
KW - Development of essential drug policies
KW - Essential drug policy
KW - Essential medicines
KW - Impact of essential drug policy
KW - Low and middle income countries
KW - Stakeholders involved in essential drug policies
KW - WHO model list of essential medicines
UR - https://www.elsevier.com/books/encyclopedia-of-pharmacy-practice-and-clinical-pharmacy/babar/978-0-12-812735-3
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85075712120&origin=inward&txGid=2390f2907cd508156d9b78e3cce8675b
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
SN - 9780128127353
VL - 2
SP - 239
EP - 249
BT - Encyclopedia of Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy
A2 - Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din
PB - Elsevier Inc.
ER -