[india-drug] PRDUC course material

["Dr. Hogerzeil" <hogerzeilh@who.int>]

PRDUC course material
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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
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

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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