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Access to age-appropriate essential medicines: a retrospective survey of compounding of medicines for children in hospitals in Nigeria and implications for policy development [PDF]

, 2017
Policies to improve access to medicines for children in Nigeria do not include compounding as a source of medicines. Compounding is often applied as a last resort in health institutions to provide age-appropriate formulations usually for oral use in ...
Nunn, T, Okwelogu, C, Opanuga, O, Orubu, ES, Tuleu, C   +4 more
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Impact of Universal Health Insurance Coverage in Thailand on Sales and Market Share of Medicines for Non-Communicable Diseases: an Interrupted Time Series Study [PDF]

, 2013
Objective: In 2001, Thailand implemented the Universal Coverage Scheme (UCS), a public insurance system that aimed to achieve universal access to healthcare, including essential medicines, and to influence primary care centres and hospitals to use ...
Garabedian, Laura Faden, Ratanawijitrasin, Sauwakon, Ross-Degnan, Dennis, Stephens, Peter, Wagner, Anita Katharina   +4 more
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Selection of WHO-recommended essential medicines for non-communicable diseases on National Essential Medicines Lists [PDF]

PLOS ONE, 2019
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide. Inadequate and inequitable access to essential NCD medicines is a major concern, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. National Essential Medicines Lists (EMLs) are important policy tools that indicate which medicines are prioritized as essential within a country's ...
Jordan D. Jarvis, Hannah Woods, Anjli Bali, Efosa Oronsaye, Nav Persaud   +4 more
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Using the needs of WHO to prioritise Cochrane reviews: The case of antipsychotic drugs [PDF]

, 2011
Background This study aimed to investigate existing trialling activity relating to three antipsychotic drugs from the WHO List of Essential Medicines (chlorpromazine, fluphenazine decanoate, haloperidol), link existing trials to existing Cochrane reviews,
Marianna Purgato, Corrado Barbui, Clive E Adams   +2 more
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Progress in increasing affordability of medicines for non-communicable diseases since the introduction of mandatory health insurance in the Republic of Moldova [PDF]

, 2016
Background: To assess progress in improving affordability of medicines since the introduction of mandatory health insurance in the Republic of Moldova. Method: Using data from national health insurance, we estimate affordability of partially reimbursed ...
Bezverhni, Zinaida, Chitan, Elena, Ferrario, Alessandra, Habicht, Jarno, Kluge, Hans, Sautenkova, Nina, Seicas, Rita   +6 more
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Can NGOs Regulate Medicines Markets? Social Enterprise in Wholesaling, and Access to Essential Medicines. [PDF]

, 2011
Citizens of high income countries rely on highly regulated medicines markets. However low income countries' impoverished populations generally struggle for access to essential medicines through out-of-pocket purchase on poorly regulated markets; results ...
Chaudhuri, Sudip, Mackintosh, Maureen, Mujinja, Phares Gm   +2 more
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Comparison of essential medicines lists in 137 countries

Bulletin of the World Health Organizatino, 2019
To compare the medicines included in national essential medicines lists with the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Model list of essential medicines, and assess the extent to which countries' characteristics, such as WHO region, size and health care expenditure, account for the differences.We searched the WHO's Essential Medicines and Health Products
Persaud N., Jiang M., Shaikh R., Bali A., Oronsaye E., Woods H., Drozdzal G., Rajakulasingam Y., Maraj D., Wadhawan S., Umali N., Wang R., McCall M., Aronson J. K., Pluddemann A., Moja L., Magrini N., Heneghan C.   +17 more
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Aid conditionalities, international Good Manufacturing Practice standards and local production rights: a case study of local production in Nepal [PDF]

, 2015
© 2015 Brhlikova et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium ...
A Abdo-Rabbo, AH Meshkini, Allyson M. Pollock, B Shakya, B Shrestha, DA Grimes, DDA, E Toledo, ES Pinheiro, GAO, H Dixit, HSSP, I Harper, Ian Harper, J Abraham, J-M Guimier, K Losse, K Morimoto, K Timmermans, M Santhosh, Madhusudan Subedi, MHP, Nabin Rawal, P Brhlikova, P Trouiller, P Trouiller, PEPFAR, Petra Brhlikova, PG Mujinja, S Budhathoki, S Chaudhuri, S Hill, S Palaian, Samita Bhattarai, SAWTEE, Thapa, UNCTAD, UNIDO, W Kaplan, WA Kaplan, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO, WHO WHO   +47 more
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of noradrenaline compared to adrenaline in the management of septic shock

African Journal of Emergency Medicine
Background: Septic shock is associated with significant mortality. The International Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines recommend noradrenaline as first-line vasopressor, whilst South African guidelines recommend adrenaline.
Trudy D Leong, Rephaim Mpofu, Sumaya Dadan, Karen Cohen, Halima Dawood, Tamara Kredo, Andy Parrish, Marc Blockman, P. Dean Gopalan   +8 more
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Access to WHO Essential Medicines for Childhood Cancer Care in Trinidad and Tobago: A Health System Analysis of Barriers and Enablers

JCO Global Oncology, 2020
PURPOSE Improving access to essential medicines is necessary to reduce global mortality resulting from childhood cancer. However, there is a lack of context-specific data in many low- to middle-income countries on the determinants of access to essential ...
Brandon Tang, Curt Bodkyn, Sumit Gupta, Avram Denburg   +3 more
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