Introduction

This journal package grants pharmacy- and healthcare professionals access to the January 2025 issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

Featuring 14 peer-reviewed, open-access articles, this journal edition keeps you updated on the latest global health policies, trends, developments, and research, making it invaluable for staying current with important advancements in the field.

[Open Access]

Who Should Enrol

All registered pharmacy- and healthcare professionals in Nigeria.

Course Content

The January 2025 issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization include the following 14 articles:

Editorials

  • The ethics of research into health and climate change: call for papers

News

  • Public health round-up
  • Mitigating the unintended consequences of health-care initiatives
  • Glenda Gray: overcoming obstacles, driving innovation

Research

  • Disease foci of pharmaceutical research and development as reflected in applications for International Nonproprietary Names, 1953–2022
  • Medicine availability and affordability for paediatric cancers, China

Policy & Practice

  • What justifies public engagement in health financing decisions?
  • Establishing links between drug registers and essential medicines lists
  • Policy coherence of price controls on food and noncommunicable disease prevention, WHO South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions
  • Fragmented markets for older antibiotics and child formulations, Denmark, Norway, Sweden
  • A policy assessment tool to identify causes of inequities that influence obesity prevalence

Lessons from the field

  • Improved water, sanitation, hygiene and waste services in health-care facilities, Ukraine

Perspectives

  • Air quality standards and WHO's guidance on particulate matter measuring 2.5 μm (PM2.5)

Certification

The assessment (MCQ) must be successfully completed to receive your certificate - two (2) attempts to achieve 70%.

The Quiz is based on the following two (2) article:

  • Medicine availability and affordability for paediatric cancers, China
  • Establishing links between drug registers and essential medicines lists





Open Access - 14 Articles & Quiz for Certificate included within this Journal Issue (10 articles selected and available for download)