E-DRUG: HIFA's first systematic review: How primary
healthcare workers obtain information for safe prescribing in LMICs
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10 April, 2020
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http://www.hifa.org/news/hifas-first-systematic-review-how-primary-healthcare-workers-obtain-information-safe
We are delighted to announce the publication in
BMJ Global Health of our first systematic review:
How primary healthcare workers obtain information
during consultations to aid safe prescribing in
low-income and lower middle-income countries.
BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002094. Published on 2nd April 2020
https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/4/e002094
This was a huge collective effort led by Chris
Smith of the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine and Nagasaki University, and
supported by the Japanese Society for the
Promotion of Science and HIFA (Healthcare
Information For All). We screened over 60,000
papers, of which 23 met our inclusion criteria.
The findings confirmed 'a lack of up-to-date and
relevant medicine information in low and lower middle-income settings'.
We would like to thank all the authors and
contributors who helped make this happen. This
has been a wonderful collaboration and it will
greatly help to inform next steps to accelerate
progress towards the vision of the HIFA
Prescribers and Users of Medicines expert working
group: A world where every prescriber and user of
medicines will have access to independent,
reliable, understandable information on the full
range of commonly prescribed medicines and will know where to find iit.
We invite everyone to read and comment, and share
direct with BMJ Global Health
[info.bmjgh@bmj.com] and/or on the HIFA forum [www.hifa.org/joinhifa].
This paper serves as a vital baseline
assessment/situation analysis on which we can
build future advocacy and action. There can be no
area of health more important than access to
reliable information to inform prescribing, no
area of health that ios more perverted by
commercial interests, and no area of health that
presents such an important and growing
existential threat to human existence (the
predicted post-antibiotic apocalypse).
The HIFA Prescribers and Users of Medicines
project is seeking £5,000 to sponsor our work for
the coming 12 months. If you, or someone you
know, can help, please contact the HIFA
Coordinator, Neil Pakenham-Walsh: neil@hifa.org
With thanks, Neil
Joint Coordinator HIFA Project on Information for
Prescribers and Users of Medicines
http://www.hifa.org/projects/prescribers-and-users-medicines
Let's build a future where people are no longer
dying for lack of healthcare information - Join HIFA: www.hifa.org
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator
of the HIFA global health campaign (Healthcare
Information For All - www.hifa.org ), a global
community with more than 19,000 members in 177
countries, interacting on six global forums in
four languages in collaboration with WHO.
neil@hifa.org
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