Lesson 3 Flashcards
This is the policy and program of the national government to ensure that safe and effective drugs are made available to all Filipinos at any time and place and at a reasonable cost.
National Drug Policy
Steps in formulating NDP:
Consultation
Local Research
International research
Componemts of NDP:
Quality Assurance of Drugs
Rational Use of Drugs by Health Professionals and Consumers
National Self-Sufficiency in Pharmaceuticals
Rationalization of the DOH’s Procurement Program
People Empowerment
Cut across all the four pillars. Aims to assist people in exercising an informed choice in the purchase of cost-effective medicines.
People Empowerment
Assigned to achieve economies of bulk purchasing and enhance the impact of DOH resources.
Rationalization of the DOH’s Procurement Program
The development of national self-sufficiency in drug manufacturing. It is intended to reduce the country’s dependence on multinational drug companies.
National Self-Sufficiency in Pharmaceuticals
It calls for the promotion of the rational use of drugs by health professionals and consumers. It refers to the practice of using only the necessary and effective drugs in treating an illness. Abuse and misuse of drugs are the antitheses of rational use of drug by health professionals and consumers
Rational Use of Drugs by Health Professionals and Consumers
The quality assurance of safe and effective pharmaceutical products through quality control is a basic need. It requires the regulation of importation, manufacture, marketing, and consumer utilization of all pharmaceutical products. This is the task of the FDA
Quality Assurance of Drugs
Objectives of the NDP can be achieved:
By strengthening the capabilities of FDA to undertake quality control, product registration, and licensing of sales establishment to assume the quality of drugs and medicines.
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 National Drug Formulary by the National Drug Committee; (c)the regulation of the advertising and promotion of pharmaceutical products.
By developing a fundamental plan with the participation of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization or (UNIDO) to achieve self-sufficiency in the basic manufacturing. Based on this plan, private investment will be given incentives products raw materials and intermediates of pharmaceutical products.
To Rationalize DOH procurement of medicines, purchases will be based on the National Drug Formulary (NDF).
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is the identification of drugs and medicines by their scientifically and internationally recognized active ingredients or by their official generic names as determined by the BFAD
Generic terminology
are drugs not covered by patent protection, which are labeled solely by the international nonproprietary or generic name.
Generic Drugs
Using the generic names will reduce the cost of treatment:
- by reducing the promotions and
- advertising costs associated with brand names drugs.
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- is the list of medicines officially recognized approved by the Department of Health (DOH).
- it is composed of core list of medicines considered essential and a complimentary list of drugs considered useful if not essential.
- this formulary is currently being prepared by the National Drug Committee and when completed will be regularly revised and updated.
National Drug Formulary (NDF)
- Is a concept promoted by the World Health Organization and refers to those drugs which cure the vast majority of illnesses and should be affordable and available to all persons.
- The EDL (essential drug list) will be incorporated into the National Drug Formulary.
Essential Drug List (EDL)
Obstacles to the Successful Implementation of NDP
The company’s stand to lose money when their products, which are judged unsafe and ineffective, are delisted and taken off the market.
Fly-by-night companies that are try to take advantage of the new law on generic labeling, prescribing, and dispensing to market products of the inferior quality with the hope of getting away with it.
Individuals and groups that want to maintain the status quo because they benefit from it in terms of large revenues or promotional perks.
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