Guidelines for Analysis of Pharmaceutical Supply System Planning in Developing Countries: Pharmaceutical Supply System Planning

摘要

This manual for pharmaceutical supply systems planning in developing countries is the seventh volume in a series of works known collectively as the International Health Planning Methods Series. The series provides AID advisors and national health officials in developing countries with critically needed guidelines for incorporating health planning into national plans for economic development. Generally, less is known about pharmaceutical supply systems than about the overall health care systems of which they are an integral part. Particularly in rural areas of lesser developed countries, the pharmaceutical supply system can be a critical part of the health care system. Evidence suggests that no country possesses an ideal pharmaceutical supply system, and virtually all supply systems are affected to some degree by issues and policies more concerned with politics, economics, education, and law, as well as those governing medicine and public health. This manual provides objective guidelines to assist health care planners to develop improved pharmaceutical supply systems within the framework of national development planning. Particular emphasis has been placed on the importance of making pharmaceutical products available to the rural poor segment of the LDC population.