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NAOSH Week serves as an important reminder of the significance of workplace safety and health and offers an opportunity for employers, employees, and safety professionals to come together to promote these values. Before NAOSH Week, ASSP holds a children's "safety-on-the-job" poster contest to teach children about the significance of workplace ...
World Patient Safety Day was established in May 2019 when the 72nd World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA 72.6 on ‘Global action on patient safety’. [6] This global campaign builds on a series of annual Global Ministerial Summits on Patient Safety initiated in 2016, as well as the high-level advocacy and commitment of major ...
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 safety of herbal medicines has become a major concern to both national health authorities and the general public. [ 57 ] [ full citation needed ] The use of herbs as traditional medicines continues to expand rapidly [ vague ] across the world; many people [ vague ] now take herbal medicines or herbal products for their health care in ...
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As the primary lobby for makers of generic drugs, [1] AAM's stated mission is to advocate for public policies that facilitate timely access to lower-cost, FDA-approved generic and biosimilar medicines by consumers and patients. Over the 10-year period 2008 through 2018, the use of generic drugs generated $2 trillion in U.S. healthcare savings.
The Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge, known as I-MAK, is a U.S.-based global 501(c)(3) organization that advocates in the public interest for affordable access to medicines, [1] and a medicines system that is more inclusive of patients and the public.
Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. [10] This remains the definition as of 2019. [1] The use of essential medicines lists has resulted in better quality of care and improved management of health resources in the most cost-effective manner.