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The selection and use of essential medicines: report of the WHO Expert Committee on Selection and Use of Essential Medicines, 2019 (including the 21st WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and the 7th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children). Geneva: World Health Organization. 2019. hdl: 10665/330668. ISBN 978-92-4-121030-0.
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 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]
LONDON (Reuters) -Obesity drugs will not join the World Health Organization's (WHO) latest essential medicines list, but treatments for diseases, including Ebola and multiple sclerosis will ...
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 first edition was published by the WHO on 15 May 2018, and complements the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML), which was published more than 40 years earlier. [1] [8] More than 150 countries have adapted the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. [7] A second edition was published in July 2019, [3] and a third in 2020. [4]
List of controlled drugs in the United Kingdom; List of drugs banned from the Olympics; List of Schedule I drugs (US) List of Schedule II drugs (US) List of Schedule III drugs (US) List of Schedule IV drugs (US) List of Schedule V drugs (US) List of withdrawn drugs; List of World Health Organization Essential Medicines