WHO released initial chapters of The World Medicines Situation Report 2011 noting that this third edition “brings together new data on 24 key topics relating to pharmaceutical production and consumption, innovation, regulation and safety – in one place…Each chapter of this report is written by a different author. Chapters are being published electronically, in batches, between April and December 2011. The new report updates the 1988 and 2004 reports.”
Table of Contents
Chapters
– Global health trends: global burden of disease and pharmaceutical needs
– Pharmaceutical consumption Expected June 2011
– Medicine expenditures Expected June 2011
– Financing medicines
– Medicines prices, availability and affordability pdf. 657 kb Released April 2011
– Access to medicines at the household level (access to health care and medicines: burden of expenditures and risk protection)
– Research and development of medicines
– Intellectual property, trade and medicines
– Regulation of medicines
– Quality of medicines: the challenge of globalization
– Pharmacovigilance & safety of medicines Expected June 2011
– Selection of essential medicines Expected June 2011
– Rational use of medicines pdf. 245 kb — Annexes Released April 2011
– Medicines Information and regulation of promotion
– Procurement of medicines Expected June 2011
– Storage and supply chain management of medicines
– Traditional medicines: global situation, issues and challenges pdf. 180 kb Released April 2011
– Access to controlled medicines pdf. 262 kb Released April 2011
– Good governance of pharmaceutical Sector pdf. 221 kb Released April 2011
– Human resources in pharmaceuticals
– Access to medicines as part of the right to health Expected June 2011
– National medicines policy
– Conclusion
http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/policy/world_medicines_situation/en/index.html
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