The selection and use of essential medicines
Subtitle: report of the WHO Expert Committee, 2011 (including the 17th WHO Model List of Essential Medicines and the 3rd WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children)
Contributors: World Health Organization
Series: WHO technical report series -- 965; Technical report series (World Health Organization) -- 965.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9789241209656
Subjects: Medicine; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Congresses; Drug utilization; Standards; Essential Drugs; Administration & dosage; Drug Information Services; Drug Utilization; Formularies as Topic; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Child
Other titles: 17th model list of essential medicines; 3rd model list of essential medicines for children; Model list of essential medicines for children; WHO model list of essential medicines for children; WHO model list of essential medicines.
Description: This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model Lists of Essential Medicines. It contains a summary of the Committee's considerations and justifications for additions and changes to the Model Lists, including its recommendations. Annexes to the main report include the revised version of the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (17th edition) and the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines for Children (3rd edition). In addition there is a list of all the items on the Model Lists sorted according to their Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) classification codes.
Notes: "The 18th Meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicine took place in Accra, Ghana on 21-25 March 2011."--P. viii.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-249).

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