E-DRUG: Essential Medicines materials for School Health programs
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I have recently received a request for generic materials on Essential
Medicines for children which could be adapted for use in School Health
Programs. When I looked for materials I found the very interesting site at
http://www.usp.org/frameset.htm?http://www.usp.org/information/programs/chil
dren/
which contains useful materials for people developing such materials.
I also found a WHO EURO publication from 1987 called Drugs for Children
which was about the pharmaceutical aspects of pediatric prescribing and
medicines use.
The book Children, Medicines and Culture by Patricia Bush and others, a 1996
publication by Haworth Press, provides a great deal of information about
studying children and medicines and provides interesting case reports from
mainly European countries.
Most recently there has been an interesting article by P Wenzel Geissler,
Lotte Meinert, Ruth Prince, Catherine Nokes, Jens Aagaard-Hansen, Jessica
Jitta, and John H Ouma Self-treatment by Kenyan and Ugandan schoolchildren
and the need for school-based education in Health Policy and Planning. 2001
16: 362-371 about what children actually know and need to know in Kenya and
Uganda.
But I have not been able to find an example of curricula or materials that I
could examine and circulate.
Do any E-Druggers have such information or examples available.
Thank you
Richard Laing (Medical Officer)
Policy, Access and Rational Use,
Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy,
World Health Organization
CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Tel 41 22 791 4533
Fax 41 22791 4167
E-mail laingr@who.int
[Long-time e-druggers will have noticed that our co-moderator Richard Laing
now is doing a sabattical at WHO/EDM. His email at Boston University is
temporarily suspended. Good luck, Richard, and all the best this year in
Geneva! WB]
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