Ivanovska, Verica and Mantel-Teeuwisse, Aukje and van Dijk, Liset (2013) Priority Medicines for Children (Background Paper 7.1). In: Priority Medicines for Europe and the World 2013 Update. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 169-173. ISBN 9789241505758
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Abstract
Children are entitled to safe, efficacious, and age-appropriate medicines. However, the
provision of optimal medicines for children is limited by the lack of commercial incentives, a
dearth of clinical trials on paediatric medicines, delays in licensing medicines for children,
and the absence of suitable formulations for children. Children are not small adults, but
rather a vulnerable population with specific needs resulting from their changing physiology,
who make up a heterogeneous patient group with a scope of diseases different than those of
adults, and for whom there is a scarcity of data on appropriate medicines delivery and use.
Therefore, these needs are discussed in detail in this background paper; the challenges and
opportunities for improvement and further research are also identified.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | Medical and Health Sciences > Health sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medical Science |
| Depositing User: | Verica Ivanovska |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Apr 2017 10:02 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2018 08:17 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/17694 |
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