Open AccessHealth priorities of the Nepal Government: where are the essential medicines?
Author(s) -
K.C. Bhuvan,
Poudel Arjun,
Mohamed Ibrahim Mohamed Izham B.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of pharmaceutical health services research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.244
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1759-8893
pISSN - 1759-8885
DOI - 10.1111/j.1759-8893.2012.00084.x
Subject(s) - essential medicines , medicine , government (linguistics) , listing (finance) , access to medicines , health care , health policy , pharmaceutical policy , population , healthcare system , essential drugs , developing country , economic growth , public health , environmental health , business , health services , finance , nursing , economics , linguistics , philosophy
Inequalities in access to essential medicines are the failures of health systems and medicines policies. Access to essential medicines is a major need of people everywhere, and is the prime focus of a country's national medicine policy.[1] The essential medicines is a list of medicines needed for a basic healthcare system for the majority of a country's population, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost-effective medicines for the priority health conditions of a country. The working draft of the World Health Organization (WHO) Medicine Strategy 2008–2013 considers selection, price, financing and supply system for essential medicines as access indicators reflecting a government's effort towards making essential medicine available to all its population.[2]..