The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines
Subtitle: Report of the WHO Expert Committee 2007
Series: WHO Technical Report, No. 950
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Geneva
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789240683280
Subjects: Medicine; Drug utilization; Essential Drugs; Child; Drugs; Preschool Child
Description: This report presents the recommendations of the Subcommittee of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. The task of this Subcommittee was to draw up the first WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children. The first part of the report contains a summary of the Committee's considerations and justifications for the inclusion of particular medicines in the Model List for Children. Appendices to the main report include the first WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children, a list of all the items it contains sorted according to their 5-level.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: COVER; COPYRIGHT; Table of Contents; WHO Expert Committee on the Selectionand Use of Essential Medicines; Declaration of interests; Presentation of the Subcommittee Report; Report on the Informal Consultation on ResearchPriorities for Children's Medicines; Other matters; Participant statements; 3. Review of the report of the Subcommittee(including the provisional Model List of EssentialMedicines for Children); 4. Update on related activities; Conclusion; References; Annex 1 Report of an Informal Consultation on ResearchPriorities for Children's Medicines, 2007