Betty Jerman, who has died aged 88 of cancer, was known to generations of Guardian readers from the 1960s into the 21st century as the woman who three times a year filled several columns of the paper with an essential list of activities and entertainments to occupy children during the school holidays.
She doesn't, for example, have a publicist – usually an essential A-list accoutrement.
South African regulators should explore all avenues of grouping medicines, either via patent status (originator brand, branded generic, generic), innovation status, country of manufacture, reimbursement status, presence on an essential medicines list or other positive lists [ 9].
Apart from supporting rural health services, the society also moved actively to support public health movements, such as a national drug policy, an essential drugs list and tobacco control.
A country that controls the prescription practices of doctors with an essential medicines list covering a few medicine categories, in order to reduce medicine cost and promote rational medication is rare.
In 2009 Paraguay's Ministry of Health developed an Essential Drugs List and an accompanying integrated logistic system for medicines and supplies.
The object of this study was to explore these factors by examining the policy-making process for a pharmaceutical policy common in developing countries; an essential medicines list.
Improvements to accessibility could be made by developing an essential medicines list for children and including these medicines in national purchasing lists.
Given that the availability of medicines is known to influence rational drug consumption, an important step forward has been the development of an essential medicines list (EML).
There is an essential medicine list (EML) for all public facilities under the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, and this list is regularly updated and used for procurement of all medicines.
