ArticleEpidemiology and psychiatric sciences2012
What is the WHO essential medicines list?
Article in Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- It's time to increase the global relevance of Cochrane Reviews by applying an 'equity lens'.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Article
- Essential psychiatric medicines: wrong selection, high consumption and social problems.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Access and use of psychotropic medicines in low-resource settings.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2015Article
- A new approach to psychiatric drug approval in Europe.PLoS medicine · 2013Article
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Abstract
This article briefly presents the main characteristics of the World Health Organization (WHO) essential medicines list (EML), a register of minimum medicine needs for every health-care system. The idea behind the list is that the use of a limited number of well-known and cost-effective medicines may lead to improved long-term medicine supply, lower costs and better health care provision.
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