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The selection and use of essential medicines: report of the WHO Expert Committee, 2017 (including the 20th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and the 6th Model List of Essential Medicines for Children). Geneva: World Health Organization. 2017. hdl: 10665/259481. ISBN 978-92-4-121015-7. ISSN 0512-3054. WHO technical report series; no. 1006.
The mission of the Department of Essential Drugs and Medicines of the World Health Organization is "to help save lives and improve health by closing the huge gap between the potential that essential drugs have to offer and the reality that for millions of people – particularly the poor and disadvantaged – medicines are unavailable, unaffordable, unsafe or improperly used."
The selection and use of essential medicines: report of the WHO Expert Committee, 2017 (including the 20th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and the 6th Model List of Essential Medicines for Children). Geneva: World Health Organization. hdl: 10665/259481. ISBN 978-92-4-121015-7. ISSN 0512-3054. WHO technical report series; no. 1006.
Essential medicines should be accessible to people at all times, in sufficient amounts, and be generally affordable. [2] Since 1977, the WHO has published a model list of essential medicines, with the 2019 list for adult patients containing over 400 medicines. [3] Since 2007, a separate list of medicines intended for child patients has been ...
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]
The WHO's essential medicines list is a catalogue of the drugs that should be available in all functioning health systems. Inclusion on the list can have great significance for access: for example ...
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 Ministry of Health (MoH) (Amharic: ጤና ሚኒስቴር) is the Ethiopian government department responsible for public health concerns. Its head office is on Sudan Street in Addis Ababa. [2] Mekdes Daba has been the head of the ministry since February 2024. The organization is a cabinet level organization which has authority over the ...