Setting standards: from passing fashion to essential clinical activity.

Setting standards: from passing fashion to essential clinical activity.

Setting standards for essential children's medicines.

a World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Suzanne Hill (e-mail: [email protected]). b Therapeutics and Medicines Management, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Congella, South Africa. doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046151 The WHO Model List of Essential Medicines, used by many countries to guide drug procurement and supply, has been a global standard for 30 years. ...

Establishing Passing Standards

Setting Standards for Green Schools in Iran

Setting Standards for Green Schools in Iran H. Meybodi A. Laahijaaniyaan, Ph.D. S.M. Shobeyri, Ph.D. S.A. Joezi, Ph.D. R. Azizinejaad, Ph.D. Given the numerous environmental threats brought about by human activities, it is essential that school children be taught the values of environmental protection in order to make the continuity of life possible. Hence, green schools hav...

Setting Housing Standards to Improve Global Health

Developing World Health Organization international guidelines is a highly formal process. Yet the resulting guidelines, which Member States are encouraged, but not required to adopt, are a powerful way of developing rigorous policy and fostering implementation. Using the example of the housing and health guidelines, which are currently being finalised, this paper outlines the process for develo...