Improvement of the National Essential Drug System by Legislation Method / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE:To propose the idea that the national essential drug system was improved with legislation method,for example revising Law for Medicine Management. METHODS:The requirement and feasibility of the legislation of national essential drugs were analyzed. RESULTS&CONCLUSIONS:The improvement of the national essential drugs system by legislation means is the demands of guaranteeing public rights for drug use,the inner requirements of implementing national health policy and the basic reflection of legislating law for medicine management. The feasibility of essential drugs legislation was improved by absorbing foreign advance experience with current essential drug policy as base. The conception and management category of essential drugs system was defined clearly based on the amendment of Law for Medicine Management,which could be the legal footing of the formulation and implementation of the supporting policies for essential drugs system.