Essential Drugs
Essential medicines, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), are the medicines that "satisfy the priority health care needs of the population". These are the medications to which people should have access at all times in sufficient amounts. The prices should be at generally affordable levels. Since 1977, the WHO has published a model list of essential medicines, with the current (2019) list for adult patients containing over 400 medicines. Since 2007, a separate list of medicines intended for child patients has been published. Both the WHO adult and children's lists contain a notation indicating that a particular medication …
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CCA: Council of Canadian Academies · 6 September 2023 English
Recognizing the challenges of enhancing the availability of novel antimicrobials, the Public Health Agency of Canada asked the CCA to examine economic pull incentives for encouraging market entry and sustained …
to Canada, 4 are on the WHO’s 2021 list of “essential” drugs (WHO, 2021a). It is important to note that …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2023 English
At present India is a leading producer, distributor, and consumer of generic medicines globally. Disparate Remedies traces the genealogy of this development and examines the public cultures of medicine in …
and the biggest manufacturer and exporter of essential drugs and pharma- ceuticals to developing nations … medicine chest.8 Indeed, a ‘medicine chest’ of essential drugs and surgical materials was one of the most … surgeon of Rangoon, recommended forty-three essential drugs including quinine, cholera pills, and the …
School of Public Policy, University of Calgary · 5 April 2023 English
BRIEFING PAPER CANADIAN Volume 15:44 April 2023 COMPETITIVENESS IN THE HEALTH LIFE SCIENCES PG Forest and Krystle Wittevrongel Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge the contributions from Life Sciences Ontario (LSO). [...] …
reliable as they thought, and that outsourcing essential drugs and therapeutics beyond one’s national borders …
CAS: Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society · 2023 English
The World Health Organization has a list of essential drugs, so I thought we should have that. I don't …
CGPA: Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association · 2 February 2022 English
Investing in the sector can allow companies to increase the volume and breadth of products that are manufactured and increase the degree of vertical integration of manufactures. [...] If Canada …
ensure that there is sufficient supply of essential drugs within Canada in the case of an emergency where …
ASC: Alzheimer Society of Canada · 29 September 2021 English
He is also Co-Director of the Quebec Network for Research on Aging and is the Academic Lead of the Dementia Education Program of the McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health …
accurate diagnosis of dementia and ensuring for essential drugs and diagnostics. This is a step forward they …
McMaster Health Forum · 13 August 2021 English
COVID-19 living evidence profile 4.4: What went well and what could have gone better in the COVID-19 responses, as well as what will need to go well in future given …
opinion piece and one government report) • Essential drugs for the care of COVID-19 patients were at risk …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 2 June 2021 English
As a component of the initiative, the govern- ment intends to establish a new entity called the Canada Drug Agency, which would assume part or all of the roles of …
said of plans for a national formulary of essential drugs. After all, if a formu- lary is established … initially only include a limited list of so-called essential drugs (Taglione et al. 2017), but it is unclear who … drugs do not appear on any proposed lists of “essential” drugs. Health Canada recently produced a discussion …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 2 June 2021 English
As a component of the initiative, the govern- ment intends to establish a new entity called the Canada Drug Agency, which would assume part or all of the roles of …
said of plans for a national formulary of essential drugs. After all, if a formu- lary is established … initially only include a limited list of so-called essential drugs (Taglione et al. 2017), but it is unclear who … drugs do not appear on any proposed lists of “essential” drugs. Health Canada recently produced a discussion …
MLI: Macdonald-Laurier Institute · 2 June 2021 English
As a component of the initiative, the govern- ment intends to establish a new entity called the Canada Drug Agency, which would assume part or all of the roles of …
said of plans for a national formulary of essential drugs. After all, if a formu- lary is established … initially only include a limited list of so-called essential drugs (Taglione et al. 2017), but it is unclear who … drugs do not appear on any proposed lists of “essential” drugs. Health Canada recently produced a discussion …
