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Community Health Workers and Drugs: A Case Study of Thailand - EDM Research Series No. 015
(1994; 78 pages)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Summary
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Community health workers, village drug funds, and the Thai primary health care programme
	2.1 The evolution of the Thai primary health care programme
	2.2 The VHV and VHC in the Thai PHC programme
	2.3 The village drug funds (VDFs)
	2.4 The drug provision role of the VDF
		2.4.1 Operational forms of the VDFs
		2.4.2 The VDF role in drug provision
Chapter 3. The village drug provision profile
	3.1 The village drug provision profiles (VDPP): an overview
	3.2 Drugs in the villages: range and types
	3.3 Major sources of drugs
Chapter 4. Community drug use
	4.1 Tracer illnesses and treatment/drug choice
	4.2 Drugs used during the tracer illness episodes
	4.3 Other health problems and the demand for drugs
Chapter 5. Conclusions and recommendations
	5.1 Conclusions
	5.2 Recommendations
Notes
Bibliography
List of annexes
	Annex 1: Tables
	Annex 2: List of household drugs
	Annex 3: Methodology
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DAP Research Series No. 15

In 1981 WHO’S Action Programme on Essential Drugs was established to provide operational support to countries in the development of national drug policies based on essential drugs and to work towards the rational use of drugs.

The Programme seeks to ensure that all people, wherever they may be, are able to obtain the drugs they need at a price that they and their country can afford; that these drugs are safe, effective and of good quality; and that they are prescribed and used rationally.

Research analysing the impediments to developing and managing sound national drug policies and programmes is an important element of country support activities. The Programme undertakes and promotes operational research aimed at filling some of the many gaps in existing knowledge about the best means of selecting, procuring and distributing drugs, and their use by prescribes and consumers.

This document is part of a series reporting on Action Programme research activities and guidelines.

Research that leads to breakthroughs in pharmaceutical technology or in highly sophisticated and expensive techniques of biomedical practice may superficially appear to be more “glamorous”. But the operational research that WHO’s Action Programme on Essential Drugs undertakes has a direct bearing on the ways in which vital medicines can be made available and accessible to the greatest number of people.

Action Programme on Essential Drugs, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland