E-drug: Promoting rational drug use in the community: session notes
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Promoting Rational Drug Use in the Community Course-
Session Notes now available for download.
We are pleased to announce that the Session Notes from the last
international training course on Promoting Rational Drug Use in the
Community, which was held in Thailand in November 2002, are now
available on the WHO Medicines website.
This very successful two-week international training course, which
focuses on a community-based approach to promoting rational drug
use, has been developed in collaboration with the University of
Amsterdam and WHO's Department of Essential Drugs and
Medicines Policy. It has been held for the past three years, twice in
Thailand, and once in Uganda.
The contents of the Session Notes also form the basis for two
manuals which are currently in preparation. The first manual is the
revised edition of the publication How to investigate drug use in
communities, and is based on the modules from the first week of the
course when tools are developed for identifying and prioritising
community drug use problems. As a follow-up to this, a second
manual, How to improve medicine use in communities, is being
developed by expanding and adapting the materials used during the
second week of the course. Materials focus on appropriate public
education intervention strategies and communication channels, using
tools designed at the beginning of the course.
You will find these modules on the WHO Medicines website at URL:
http://www.who.int/medicines/organization/par/prduc/prducmain.shtml
<http://www.who.int/medicines/organization/par/prduc/prducmain.sht
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Please feel free to access, download and print these materials.
Information on the course planned for 2003 will be distributed shortly
and an announcement will also be made on E-Drug. It is intended to
hold the course in an African country, probably during November.
If you require further information please contact Lisa Greenough,
Policy, Access and Rational Use, Department of Essential Drugs and
Medicines Policy, World Health Organization on greenoughl@who.int
<greenoughl@who.int>
Lisa Greenough
Policy, Access and Rational Use
Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy
World Health Organization
20 avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Tel. +41 22 791 3893
Fax: +41 22 791 4167
E-mail: greenoughl@who.int
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