Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3267
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Publication type: Journal Article
WHO meeting agrees on rational drugs strategy
Lancet 1985; 2:1350-1351
Abstract:
(Limited to parts of article dealing with promotion.) At a World Health Organization sponsored meeting in Kenya on rational use of drugs WHO was asked to establish an expert committee to produce guidelines on ethical advertising by expanding and updating a 1968 World Health Assembly resolution.
Keywords:
*news story/World Health Organization/WHO/regulation of promotion/REGULATION, CODES, GUIDELINES: INTERNATIONAL CODES