Bulletin of the World Health Organization: Volume 103, Issue 1, January 2025

Who Should Enrol

All registered pharmacy- and healthcare professionals in Namibia.

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

Accreditation

Accrediting Body: Health Professions Council of Namibia

Council Number: ORG01419

Number of CPD points awarded to journal: 2 Clinical Points