Identifying the most effective essential medicines policies for quality use of medicines: A replicability study using three World Health Organisation data-sets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poor quality use of medicines (QUM) has adverse outcomes. Governments' implementation of essential medicines (EM) policies is often suboptimal and there is limited information on which policies are most effective.

Methods

We analysed data on policy implementation from World Health Organisation (WHO) surveys in 2007 and 2011, and QUM data from surveys during 2006-2012 in developing and transitional countries. We compared QUM scores in countries that did or did not implement specific policies and regressed QUM composite scores on the numbers of policies implemented. We compared the ranking of policies in this and two previous studies, one from the same WHO databases (2003-2007) the other from data obtained during country visits in South-East Asia (2010-2015). The ra

SUBMITTER: Holloway KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7004360 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature