WHO EDM Home page http://www.who.int/medicines/
Drug Prices Click here for Drug Prices Resource page maintained by WHO
ATC/DDD Codes WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology
Australia's Productivity Commission has released a report on Australian pharmaceutical prices relative to prices in seven other countries: the US, Canada, the UK, France, Spain, Sweden and New Zealand. The report focuses on the prices that manufacturers receive for 150 pharmaceuticals under Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. The report, International Pharmaceutical Price Differences, was released on 20 July 2001. It is available online (as well as hardcopy): http://www.pc.gov.au/research/commres/pbsprices/finalreport/pbsprices.pdf
Bi-Regional Working Group Meeting on Hospital Pharmaceutical & Therapeutic Committee and Drug Information Service Meeting in Penang Malaysia
Drug Information Center site in Penang List of useful links
Commission on Macoeconomics and health Working group 4 papers
The UK government independent commission on intellectual property rights (CIPR) has posted its commissioned reports on the the CIPR website at: http://www.iprcommission.org/meetingsIndex.asp. There are some very useful reports by Dr Nagesh Kumar, Peter Drahos, AlanStory, Michael Blakeney, Fred Abbot, and others, on a range of intellectual property issues.INRUD News The International Network for Rational Use
of Drugs (INRUD) is pleased to announce that INRUD News is now available on the Web. INRUD
News is published twice a year, and over 3,000 copies are distributed free worldwide.
Contents include updates on INRUD global activities, country and support Group reports,
reports on meetings and workshops, research briefs, samples of E-Drug communications, and
references of articles on rational drug use.
You can subscribe to INRUD News and read current and past issues by clicking on the
newsletter icon at the following Web site address:
http://www.msh.org/inrud/
Useful Web site related to Drug Utilization review
Randy Trinkles Site http://www.rupert.net/~rtrinkle/dur.htm
PharmWeb Site http://www.pharmweb.net/
South African Standard Treatment Guidelines http://www.sadap.org.za/edl/
http://www.house.gov/berry/prescriptiondrugs/studies.htm
House of Representatives Prescription Drug
Task Force This is a web site of links created by representative Marion
Berry the only pharmacist in the House of Representatives
Other US Pharmaceutical Web Site Links
New Internationalist Edition on essential Drugs http://www.oneworld.org/ni/issue272/contents.html
TALC Health and Pharmacy
Libraries http://www.rgp.man.ac.uk/gp/talc/library.htm
WHO ESSENTIAL DRUGS MONITOR 20 EDITORIAL on Good prescribing: lifetime skills http://www.who.int/medicines/monitor/edm20a.html
Guidelines for National drug Policies 2001 Revision of 1988 document
PROMOTING RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS AT THE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS IN INDONESIA ARUSTIYONO
USE OF DRUGS IN SIND PROVINCE PAKISTAN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FACILITIES BY KHALIL MEMON CONCENTRATION PAPER FOR MPH AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Selection of essential drug lists in Central Asian Republics. Comparison and discrepancies. Azizkhon Jafarov May 2002 Word Document Annex 1-2 Annex 3,8&9 Annex 4-7Social and Political Influences on Pharmaceutical Approval in the United States and Japan Through Example of Viagra, RU 486 and Oral Contraception by Ilyssa Hollander January 2003
Policy and programming options for reducing the procurement costs of essential medicines in developing countries by Libby Levison January 2003 pdf version zipped version
Essential Drug Related Papers or Reports
Drug Use in Macedonia 2000 by Simona Chorliet, Marija Gulija and Vladanka Andreeva
Drug Supply Systems of Missionary Organizations Identifying Factors Affecting Expansion and Efficiency: Case Studies from Uganda and Kenya.Report prepared for WHO/EDM by Eriko Kawasaki, MPH., John P. Patten, MA, RD. January 15 2002Dissertations from other Schools of Public Health
Improving access to antiretroviral drugs in developing countries: constraints and strategies. Helena Anna Walkowiak, B.Pharm. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the Masters of Science in Public Health in Developing Countries London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine London, UK September 1999MANAGEMENT OF REVOLVING DRUG FUND:EXPERIENCE OF KHARTOUM STATE- SUDAN GAMALELDIN KHALAFALLA MOHAMED ALI University of Bradford 2000
Other Papers
Click here if you would like to download the Power Point file:
Global Issues of Access to
Pharmaceuticals and Effects of Patents. Presentation by Richard Laing, Geneva, March
26, 1999.
Click here if you would like to view the Power Point presentation:
Power Point
Presentation of Global Issues of Access to Pharmaceuticals and Effects of Patents.
Presentation by Richard Laing, Geneva, March 26, 1999.
Click here if you want to download a transcript of the talk given by Richard Laing
WHO-WTO Workshop on Differential Pricing and Financing of Essential Drugs, Høsbjør, 2001
http://www.who.int/medicines/library/edm_general/who-wto-hosbjor/who-wto-hosbjor.html
Resource site created by Ken Harvey in Australia http://www-sph.health.latrobe.edu.au/PBAC/ frequently updated so refreshh your browser!
http://heapol.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/16/1/13 Click here to read a pdf version of the paper Click here for Power point slides for a presentation of the paper
This is an electronic version of an article published in Tropical Medicine
and International Health: complete citation information for the final version of
the paper, as published in the print edition of Tropical Medicine and
International Health, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery
service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/TMI
or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.
Health Policy and Planning Volume 18 (1) has two articles about essential
Drugs The first is an Editorial
Essential medicines
twenty-five years on: closing the access
The second is a review article
Ten best readings in . . . essential medicines by
JONATHAN D QUICK, MD, MPH, AND HANS V HOGERZEIL, MD, PH.D., FRCP EDIN
Download from Lancet at:
http://pdf.thelancet.com/pdfdownload?uid=llan.361.9370.editorial_and_review.25691.1&x=x.pdf
LABOUR MARKET AND SOCIAL POLICY - OCCASIONAL PAPERS No. 40 OECD
PHARMACEUTICAL POLICIES IN OECD COUNTRIES: RECONCILING SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL GOALS S. Jacobzone
Tuberculosis Links http://dcc2.bumc.bu.edu/richardl/tb_links/
Presentations
Presentation by Jonathan Quick (EDM/WHO) to International Pediatric Association 2001
WHO Expert Committee on Selection of Essential Medicines 2003 Resource Materials
Whose interests does the World Trade Organization serve? Letter to Lancet by Richard Laing
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