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World Health Organization. hdl: 10665/44053. ISBN 978-92-4-154765-9. The selection and use of essential medicines. Twentieth report of the WHO Expert Committee 2015 (including 19th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and 5th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children). Geneva: World Health Organization. 2015. hdl: 10665/189763.
Essential medicines, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), are medicines that "satisfy the priority health care needs of the population". [1] Essential medicines should be accessible to people at all times, in sufficient amounts, and be generally affordable. [2]
The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children (aka Essential Medicines List for Children [1] or EMLc [1]), published by the World Health Organization (WHO), contains the medications considered to be most effective and safe in children up to twelve years of age to meet the most important needs in a health system.
The WHODrug Dictionary is an international classification of medicines created by the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring and managed by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre. [ 1 ] It is used by pharmaceutical companies , clinical trial organizations and drug regulatory authorities for identifying drug names in spontaneous ADR reporting ...
Pages in category "World Health Organization essential medicines" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 525 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The classification was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and launched in 2017. [1] It is an aspect of the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. [3] The classification as of 2021 covers 258 items. [1] Challenges in its implementation include lack of awareness, little political will, and few resources. [6]
Many drugs have more than one name and, therefore, the same drug may be listed more than once. Brand names and generic names are differentiated by capitalizing brand names. See also the list of the top 100 bestselling branded drugs , ranked by sales.
A stringent regulatory authority is a regulatory authority which is: a) a member of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH), being the European Commission, the US Food and Drug Administration and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan also represented by the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (as before ...