The Challenge of Ensuring Adequate Stocks of Essential Drugs in Rural Health Clinics

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dc.creatorWorld Bank
dc.date2012-08-13T11:37:44Z
dc.date2012-08-13T11:37:44Z
dc.date2010-11
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:15:46Z
dc.descriptionHealth experts and policymakers want people to have access to affordable and high-quality medical care. But in some developing countries, making quality healthcare available may first necessitate ensuring that essential medicines are available, such as anti-malaria pills and antibiotics. The challenge to guaranteeing a steady supply is not only related to the financial side of paying for medicines. Poor roads, limited communications and storage problems can make it difficult to keep medical facilities stocked with what they need to provide children and adults with regular and lifesaving care. The World Bank is working to help countries provide quality medical care, a key part of many of the United Nations Millennium Development eight goals. Recently, in Zambia, the World Bank supported a project exploring how to guarantee the availability of essential medicines in often-remote health facilities. The 12-month study, which covered almost 22 percent of Zambia's rural population, found that streamlining the delivery of medicines directly to health centers and introducing a dedicated staff member to help facilitate and track orders cut down on the rate at which clinics ran out of basic medicines. The focus on just one aspect of good healthcare, making certain necessary supplies are in stock in medical clinics, does not answer all the questions that experts face in building or supporting functioning health systems. But it may help them as they work towards creating the quality healthcare that all people deserve.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/11/13720570/challenge-ensuring-adequate-stocks-essential-drugs-rural-health-clinics
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/10464
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/10464
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/416536
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationFrom Evidence to Policy
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectCLINICS
dc.subjectDEATHS
dc.subjectDISTRICTS
dc.subjectESSENTIAL DRUGS
dc.subjectFAMILIES
dc.subjectFEVER
dc.subjectFUEL
dc.subjectHEALTH CENTERS
dc.subjectHEALTH CLINICS
dc.subjectHEALTH EXPERTS
dc.subjectHEALTH FACILITIES
dc.subjectHEALTH MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectHEALTH SYSTEMS
dc.subjectHOSPITALS
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectHUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectILLNESS
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectLIFE EXPECTANCY
dc.subjectMALARIA
dc.subjectMALARIA TREATMENTS
dc.subjectMALARIAL DRUGS
dc.subjectMEDICAL CARE
dc.subjectMEDICAL FACILITIES
dc.subjectMEDICAL SUPPLIES
dc.subjectMEDICINE
dc.subjectMEDICINES
dc.subjectMORTALITY
dc.subjectPUBLIC HEALTH
dc.subjectROAD
dc.subjectROAD VEHICLES
dc.subjectROADS
dc.subjectRURAL AREAS
dc.subjectTHERAPY
dc.subjectTRANSIT
dc.subjectTRANSPORT
dc.subjectTRANSPORTATION
dc.subjectTREATMENT
dc.titleThe Challenge of Ensuring Adequate Stocks of Essential Drugs in Rural Health Clinics

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