Ø This is the task of the FDA.
QUALITY ASSURANCE OF DRUGS
Abuse and misuse of drugs are the antithesis of rational use
RATIONAL USE OF DRUGS BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND CONSUMERS
Ø The development of national self-sufficiency in drug manufacturing.
NATIONAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN PHARMACEUTICALS
Ø Assigned to achieve economies of bulk purchasing and enhance the impact of DOH resources.
RATIONALIZATION OF THE DOH’S PROCUREMENT PROGRAM
Ø Cut across all the four pillars
PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT
Ø It is intended to reduce the country’s dependence on the multinational drug companies.
NATIONAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN PHARMACEUTICALS
Ø Aims to assist people in exercising an informed choice in the purchase of cost-effective medicines
PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT
By strengthening the capabilities of FDA to undertake (blank) to assume the quality of drugs and medicines.
quality control, product registration and licensing of sales establishment
The following should be done to ensure that the rational use of drugs by consumers and health professionals:
a. the passage of the bill in Congress requiring labeling, prescribing, and dispensing of medicines.
b. the creations of the NDF by the National Drug Committee
c. the regulation of the advertising and promotion pharmaceutical products.
By developing a fundamental plan with the participation of the (blank) to achieve self-sufficiency in the basic manufacturing
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Based on this plan, private investment will be given (blank) of pharmaceutical products.
incentives products raw materials and intermediates
To rationalize (blank), purchases have been based on generic nomenclature.
DOG procurement of medicines
All futures purchases will be based on the
National Drug Formulary.
is the identification of drugs and medicines by their scientifically and intentionally recognized active ingredients or by their official generic names as determined by the BFAD of the DOH.
Generic Terminology
are drugs not covered by patent protection, which are labeled solely by their international non-proprietary or generic name.
Generic Drugs
is a simpler term for the scientifically recognized active ingredient of a drug.
Generic name
Ø Is the list of medicines official recognized approved by the DOH.
· NATIONAL DRUG DORMULARY (NDF)
Ø It is composed of core list of medicines considered essential and a complementary list of drugs considered useful if not essential
· NATIONAL DRUG DORMULARY (NDF)
Ø This formulary is currently being prepared by the National Drug Committee and when completed will be regularly revised and updated
· NATIONAL DRUG DORMULARY (NDF)
· Ø Is a concept promoted by the World Health Organization and refers to those drugs which cure the vast majority of illness and should be affordable and available to all persons.
· ESSENTIAL DRUG LIST (EDL)