# \[e-drug\] Top 10 readings on Essential Medicines (cont) **URL:** \ **Category:** e-drug\ **Created:** [October 8, 2002, 5:58am UTC](https://talk.edrugplus.org/t/e-drug-top-10-readings-on-essential-medicines-cont/15084 "2002-10-08T05:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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E-drug: Top 10 readings on Essential Medicines (cont) --------------------------------------------- Hi Making this list is a challenge. Should it be chronological? Should it include only key note papers or could it include books or review articles. Could it include your own papers. Here is my list in more or less chronological order 1. the 1977 first EDL list (The little blue book that started this revolution) 2. Managing Drug Supply 1 and 2 (The standard texts that have had an incredible impact) 3. Nairobi conference of experts on the rational use of drugs (1985 Nairobi Conferences) (Served as the basis for the revised drug strategy) 4. Computerized calculation of essential drug requirements by Soeters and Bannenberg in Social Science and Medicine 27 955-970 ( I thought of putting in Hans Hogerzeil's 4 Tropical Doctor articles from Ghana but decided that this is the best quantification article) 5. Field tests for rational drug use in twelve developing countries by Hogerzeil,H.V.; Bimo; Ross-Degnan,D.G.; Laing,R.O.; Ofori-Adjei,D.; Santoso,B.; Chowdhury,A.K.A.; Das,A.M.; Kafle,K.K.; Mabadeje,A.F.; et al. in Lancet 1993 (This article should of course be read in conjunction with the WHO Manual How to investigate Drug use in Health Facilities WHO/DAP93.1) 6. Hardon AP. The use of modern pharmaceuticals in a Filipino village: doctors' prescription and self medication. Social Science & Medicine. 25(3):277-92, 1987. (This is the best article I know of about community aspects of pharmaceuticals) 7. Hadiyono,J.E.; Suryawati,S.; Danu,S.S.; Sunartono; Santoso,B. Interactional group discussion: results of a controlled trial using a behavioral intervention to reduce the use of injections in public health facilities Social Science and Medicine 42 1177 1183 (This I think is one of the most elegant intervention studies on changing drug use) I was tempted to put the Health Policy and Planning article on 10 recomendations to improve drug use but decided someone elso could suggest it! 8. The baby blue WHO TRIPS and Public Health that Mohga Smith mentioned is also on my list 9. Laing RO and Ruredzo The essential drugs programme in Zimbabwe: new approaches to training Health Policy and Planning 4(3) 229 (Although this is one of mine I do like it as one of the few articles about the planning and management of Essential drugs Programs and the ZEDAP approach became the standard approach) 10. MSH Drug Price Indicator guide (This has been around since 1988 and has had an enormous influence) What just missed? I like Ranjit Roy Chaudhury's article about the Delhi State drug procurement system that appeared in the recent ED Monitor. I considered the essential drugs section of the World Bank Investing in Health 1993 . This section written primarily by Helen Saxenian is one of the most concise arguments for the Essential Drugs Concept. Then there is the World Bank Technical Note on Pharmaceutical Procurement written by Yolanda Tayler. There is of course the Inter Agency guidelines on Pharmaceutical procurement but that is based on the MDS2 chapter so it is already in. Then the Guide to good prescribing or the Lancet article that goes with it and for donations the NEJM article about Bosnia would be my choice. Nothing on quality yet. That will be the Rago and Van Niekerk article about the WHO Prequalification scheme when they write it! So for me the most difficult thing was to decide what to leave out. I look forward to reading other top 10 lists. Richard Richard Laing Associate Professor of International Health Boston University School of Public Health 715 Albany St, T4W, Boston MA 02118 USA Tel 617 414-1444 Fax 617 638-4476 E-mail richardl@bu.edu -- To send a message to E-Drug, write to: e-drug@usa.healthnet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe, write to: majordomo@usa.healthnet.org in the body of the message type: subscribe e-drug OR unsubscribe e-drug To contact a person, send a message to: e-drug-help@usa.healthnet.org Information and archives: [http://www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html](http://www.healthnet.org/programs/edrug.html)