Through this course, the students will develop a basic understanding of health commodities, review how the list of products on the national treatment guidelines is arrived at including the process, persons involved, key strengths, and gaps. A detailed
understanding of the essential medicines concept will be explored.
This program provides a general overview of the reasons for undertaking good medicine selection, its aims to make the professionals be aware of the International Non-propriety Names and be able to explain and defend the concept, explains the difference
between essential medicine lists and other medicine lists, the importance of Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical system of therapeutic classification.