[india-drug] Essential Medicines materials for School Health programs

["Dr. Laing" <laingr@who.int>]

Essential Medicines materials for School Health programs
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(Copied from Edrug. Thanks??SS)

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



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