National policies for safety of medicines in the Asia Pacific region.
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Date
2013-04
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WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia
Abstract
National medicines policies can aid the safe use of medicines by ensuring availability of
quality products, appropriate information for prescribers and consumers, strengthening
the national medicines regulatory capacity and improving access to expert advice and
authoritative laboratory testing. We report the findings of a workshop on medicines
safety, which focused on the Asia Pacific region. Participants noted that external
support is needed for resource‑poor countries and that national medicines policies
should include surveillance on problems with medicines, rather than the more limited
monitoring of adverse drug reactions. The latter approach may be the only sensible
option in countries in the Asia Pacific with very small populations.
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National medicines policy, pharmacovigilance, safe use of medicines
Citation
WHO South-East Asia Journal of Public Health 2013;2(2): 118-120.