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Essential Medicines for Children
Author(s) -
Hoppu K
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt.661
Subject(s) - essential medicines , equity (law) , essential drugs , medicine , health care , access to medicines , alternative medicine , business , quality (philosophy) , population , family medicine , environmental health , health services , nursing , public health , economic growth , political science , pathology , philosophy , epistemology , law , economics
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Essential Medicines as those that satisfy the priority healthcare needs of the population.[1][, ] The right to essential medicines has been considered an important component of the right to health. In the name of equity, children should also have access to appropriate, available, affordable, and quality essential medicines they need, but children's essential medicines are too often missing.