The Use of Essential Drugs: Eight report of the WHO Expert Committee (WHO

The Use of Essential Drugs: Eight report of the WHO Expert Committee (WHO - OMS, 1998, 84 p.)

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		WHO Expert Committee on the Use of Essential Drugs - Geneva, 1-5 December 1997
		1. Introduction
		2. Guidelines for establishing a national programme for essential drugs
		3. Criteria for the selection of essential drugs
		4. Guidelines for the selection of pharmaceutical dosage forms
		5. Quality assurance
		6. Reserve anti-infective agents and monitoring of resistance
		7. Applications of the essential drugs concept
		8. Essential drugs and primary health care
		9. Drug donations
		10. Post-registration drug studies
		11. Research and development
		12. Nomenclature
		13. Drug information and educational activities
		14. Selection and updating of lists of essential drugs
		15. Model List of Essential Drugs (tenth list)
		16. Considerations and changes made in revising the model list
		17. Glossary of terms used in the report
		Acknowledgement
		References
		Annex 1. Application form for inclusion in the Model List of Essential Drugs1
		Selected WHO publications of related interest
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