WHO essential medicines policies and use in developing and transitional countries: an analysis of reported policy implementation and medicines use surveys.

Suboptimal medicine use is a global public health problem. For 35 years the World Health Organization (WHO) has promoted essential medicines policies to improve quality use of medicines (QUM), but evidence of their effectiveness is lacking, and uptake by countries remains low. Our objective was to d...

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Main Authors: Kathleen Anne Holloway, David Henry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-09-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4165598?pdf=render