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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785043003321

Titolo

Measuring transparency to improve good governance in the public pharmaceutical sector Jordan [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo, Egypt, : World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, c2009

ISBN

1-282-76098-X

9786612760983

92-9021-682-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (70 p.)

Disciplina

615.19

Soggetti

Pharmaceutical industry - Standards - Jordan

Pharmaceutical policy - Jordan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Foreword; 7 Preface; Acknowledgements; Executive summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview of the public pharmaceutical sector in Jordan; 3. Methodology; 4. Results; 5. Data analysis and interpretation; 6. Recommendations; 7. Conclusions; Annexes

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region have made significant achievements in the provision of health services. In the pharmaceutical field, countries have been striving to improve the structures and regulations pertaining to medicines and have progressed in many ways. However, there are still important challenges. The goal of the WHO Good Governance for Medicines programme is to improve the situation of medicines regulation and supply. National transparency assessment is the beginning of a process aimed at bringing about desirable and sustainable changes in the gove