Priority medicines for maternal and child health: A global survey of national essential medicines lists

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Hill, Suzanne ^a,d   Yang, Annie ^b   Bero, Lisa ^c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Health and Aging   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE PLUS ARTESUNATE; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; BETAMETHASONE; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DIHYDROARTEMISININ PLUS PIPERAQUINE; GENTAMICIN; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METRONIDAZOLE; MISOPROSTOL; MORPHINE; NIFEDIPINE; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; OXYGEN; OXYTOCIN; PARACETAMOL; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; RETINOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZINC; ZINC SULFATE; DRUG;

ANOGENITAL GONOCOCCAL INFECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISPERSIBLE TABLET; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG USE; ECLAMPSIA; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; MALARIA; MATERNAL SEPSIS; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY MEDICINES LIST; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SEPSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ARTESUNATE;

CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; FEMALE; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MOTHERS; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PREGNANCY; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84861691763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038055     Document Type: Article

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