The purpose of the work: to conduct a comparative analysis list essential medicines World Health Organization with Kazakhstan National Medicinal Formulary determine similarities and differences in their composition.Methods: 21st main was carried out search for common distinctive features studied lists medicines. For convenience study, spreadsheets were used, also available on websites medicines...

Values at stake in security agenda Lisa Eckenwiler et al. (737–738) discuss the unintended health impacts of counterterrorism policies and practices. Treating paediatric tuberculosis Meaghann S Weaver et al. (700–711) analyse the design, delivery and outcomes of interventions to improve treatment adherence in low-resource settings. Selecting essential medicines Corrina Moucheraud et al. (693–69...

In 1977, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its first Model List of Essential Medicines including just over 200 medicines. This year, the 20th Expert Committee for the Selection and Use of Medicines has included several new high priced medicines in the areas of cancer (N=16), hepatitis C (N=6) and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (N=4). The large cancer update was prepared with the s...

OBJECTIVE To perform a critical comparison between the Brazilian national essential medicines list (Rename, 2012) with the list of essential medicines for children (LEMC, 2011) of the World Health Organization (WHO), regarding the differences among drugs and formulations listed for children. METHODS The LEMC drugs were classified into four categories: 1) absent in Rename; 2) included in Renam...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the process of selection of medicines for primary health care in the Brazilian regions. METHODS This article is part of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos - Serviços, 2015 (PNAUM - National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines - Services, 2015), a cross-sectional study that consisted o...

The development of the first Model List of Essential Drugs2 [1] and the Declaration of Alma Ata [2], which advocated the adoption of primary health care (PHC), were both important milestones in the history of public health. Some elements of both were already in practice in some countries before the late 1970s when the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted and promoted them. They are dependent...

BACKGROUND The current health care reform in China launched in 2009 tackles the problem of access to appropriate medicines for its 1.3 billion people by focusing on providing essential medicines to all. To provide evidence for the reform process, we investigated the manufacturing, purchasing, and prescribing of essential medicines in two provinces. METHODS We conducted surveys in 2007 of all ...

The aims of the present study were to estimate free-of-charge acquisition psychotropic drugs among Brazilian adults; analyze distribution psychotropics according their presence on Relação Nacional de Medicamentos Essenciais (RENAME [National List Essential Medicines]) and source funding (free charge or direct payment); proportion therapeutic class RENAME. This involved analysis data from 2014 N...

Background: The administration of pediatric medicines in an accurate manner for successful therapy is imperative. This study aimed to investigate the Iran Medicine List for the appropriateness of the six pharmacological formulations for children populations to the success of accurate dose delivery. <span style="f...